Michael Wadman is Vice President of Real Estate Development at Phipps Houses.  Since joining Phipps, Michael has closed development projects totaling almost 4,000 units of affordable housing and has almost 2,000 units in his pipeline.  Prior to joining Phipps, Michael held positions managing affordable housing development at the Hudson Companies Inc., where he secured site control for a pipeline of over 2,200 affordable housing units, and as the Senior Vice President of the New York State Housing Finance Agency where he originated over $3.35 billion of bonds and mortgages to finance affordable housing throughout New York State.