Executive Team

Charles E. Allen is a Principal of Evergreen Partners, LLC. Evergreen and its affiliates are actively acquiring and redeveloping rental properties throughout much of the country and have assembled a portfolio of more that 5,000 apartments. Charlie has worked in affordable housing finance for over twenty-five years and has structured and closed more that one hundred and fifty transactions over that period. The transactions have included various types of dispositions, acquisitions and refinancings, often in the early pioneering stages of a given government-based program or market-based opportunity. All of these transactions have involved the recapitalization of existing government regulated housing. Before moving over to the development side in 2003, Charlie was at Recap Advisors, Inc., a Boston based consulting firm. Prior to that, Charlie worked at the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development where he coordinated a rental development program as well as the Agency's early efforts to preserve the federally assisted portfolio. Charlie’s first job in housing was at the Gloucester Housing Authority in Massachusetts. One of Charlie's primary roles within Evergreen is to identify acquisition opportunities and to structure transaction plans for properties and portfolios. Charlie is also one of the owners of Preservation Management, Inc, an affiliated property management company.

Charlie is a graduate of Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon and has an MBA and a Certificate in Public Management from Boston University. He serves as the Chair of the Affordable Housing Partnership in Ipswich, MA, is a board member of an environmental education foundation, and participates in many other civic and community activities.

William A. Houlihan is a Principal of Evergreen Partners, LLC. Bill has been engaged in the tax, finance and accounting aspects of real estate development for over 20 years. Bill is also a Principal of Preservation Management, Inc., an affiliated property management company and Evergreen Communities, LLC, a real estate development company focused on new construction of affordable housing.

Prior to co-founding Evergreen Partners, Bill was a founding Principal in The Wishcamper Group and was a Vice President and Controller of Wishcamper Properties, Inc. and Housing Resources Corporation.

Bill is a graduate of the University of Maine. Bill has been the Treasurer, Chair of the Finance Committee and a member of the Board of Trustees for a local non-profit organization for over 15 years and is involved in other civic and community activities.