Doug Shoemaker

Principal

Health Management Associates

San Francisco, CA

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A recognized leader in the affordable housing field, Doug Shoemaker works at the intersection of housing, community development and healthcare to advance projects and policy that improve outcomes for lower-income individuals and communities. Leveraging his expertise in housing development, financing, operations and policy, Doug creates effective partnerships and community-based programs that address homelessness, senior living, and other complex challenges.

Before joining Health Management Associates, Doug was president of Mercy Housing California, the nation’s largest nonprofit affordable housing developer. In this role, he provided strategic oversight and business development for a 3,500-unit affordable housing development pipeline, stretching from Los Angeles to the Bay Area and Sacramento. Under his leadership, Mercy Housing California doubled its annual housing production, ultimately completing over 6,000 affordable homes during his tenure.  

At a national level, Doug also served as the senior vice president of Mercy Housing’s Health Care Ventures, leading the organization’s national work on health and housing. He engaged key stakeholders, including health plans and agencies and developed new models to fund health related social needs in the organization’s core operating and services approach.

Throughout his career, Doug has championed innovation. To enable Mercy Housing to expand production, he led the design and capital raising efforts for the California Land Acquisition Fund, a $47 million initiative capitalized by commercial banks, foundations and healthcare organizations to bring the speed and impact of private equity funds to the nonprofit affordable housing space. He also pushed Mercy Housing to expand its efforts into modular housing and other innovative practices.

As a policy leader, Doug has straddled the fields of healthcare and housing to create new strategies and approaches for development, services and funding. He served on citizen advisory councils for California’s CalAim 1115 Waiver task force and California’s Interagency Council on Homelessness. He also co-chaired the California Treasurer’s task force to restructure the state’s approach to low-income housing tax credits and tax-exempt bond financing.   

Doug is also a nationally recognized expert on mixed-income development. In his role as the director of San Francisco’s Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development, he co-led the creation and implementation of HOPE SF, San Francisco’s multi-billion-dollar initiative to revitalize its public housing communities with mixed-income housing and an integrated approach to human services and economic development.

Doug earned his master’s degree in history from the University of California at Berkley. He also has a bachelor’s degree in comparative area studies and history from Duke University.

In his free time, Doug enjoys working on his current passion project: creating cultural history tours of the San Francisco Bay Areas.