Nicole Norori joined the California Housing Partnership’s Southern California team in 2015. As Senior Director, Financial Consulting – Central Coast Region, she provides financial consulting assistance and training to the Partnership’s government and nonprofit partners, and mentors local financial consultants. She was promoted from Senior Housing Finance Consultant in 2020. Nicole brings over 15 years of direct affordable housing real estate development and finance experience. She has worked on a range of developments including new construction, acquisition/rehab, gut rehab, mixed-use, mobile home park relocation and replacement housing, and multifamily conversion of a historic building. Nicole has worked in both non-profit and for-profit affordable housing development and brings intricate knowledge of local, state, and federal financing mechanisms, and development and construction processes.

Prior to joining the Partnership, Nicole worked as a Project Manager for Cabrillo Economic Development Corp. and oversaw the development of various non-rural, rural and farmworker family developments in Ventura and Santa Barbara County. She has worked on developments serving special needs populations, seniors, families, and farmworkers. She has also worked closely with local jurisdictions in Ventura County to implement affordable housing “friendly” zoning policies and ordinances and has worked extensively on reviewing and providing input for local Housing Elements. Nicole received a Master of Arts in Urban Planning and Latin American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Bachelor of Arts in History and Latin American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles.