Bold Communities is a minority-led organization that was established in 2021 . As a new firm, we are actively sourcing projects and seeking partnerships with experienced developers, capital partners, and service providers that are aligned with our mission to expeditiously and creatively not only address, but permanently solve, the housing crisis in California.
Los Angeles county is our backyard and our immediate area of focus, but we are structured as a Community Housing Development Organization (CHDO), as defined by HUD. Our designated service areas encompass specific counties across the state of California. Please reach out for more information.
Mike Miller, Founder & President
Mr. Miller is an adept real estate professional with over a decade of industry experience spanning acquisitions, finance, development and asset management. He most recently served as Chief Financial Officer of Subversive Real Estate Acquisition REIT, a publicly traded cannabis REIT special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) listed in Canada, and Vice President of Inception REIT, a private cannabis REIT based in Beverly Hills.
From 2014-2018 he served as acquisitions and project manager at Thomas Safran & Associates Development, Inc. (“TSA”), an established affordable housing developer in Los Angeles. At TSA, Mr. Miller managed the acquisition, design, entitlement, finance and construction process of projects in development, while garnering considerable experience in cultivating public-private partnerships and complex deal structuring that use Low-Income Housing Tax Credits and/or Tax-Exempt bonds.
He began his career in New York City at Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. and Barclays PLC, where he worked in the Investment Banking and Global Debt Capital Markets divisions. Mr. Miller holds an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and earned a BA in International Relations and a MA in Sociology from Stanford University, where he was a wide receiver on the Stanford Football team.