Polina Bakhteiarov
Senior Associate
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Polina Bakhteiarov is a people-first, economic justice-driven real estate and community development leader with more than 15 years of experience unlocking the market potential of our cities' assets via public-private partnerships. Her career in public housing began in 2012 at the Mayor’s Office in Washington, DC where she managed multiple build-first redevelopments under the New Communities Initiative with the District of Columbia Housing Authority. In 2016, Ms. Bakhteiarov was recruited to New York City to design and launch the New York City Housing Authority’s public housing recapitalization initiative (colloquially known as “PACT”), where she established a 62,000-unit repositioning pipeline and converted/preserved 5,600 distressed apartments with more than 12,000 residents in-place. Ms. Bakhteiarov was also instrumental in bringing together HUD DC’s Office of Recapitalization with HUD Chicago’s Special Applications Center to develop and test the first iteration of RAD/Section 18 blended conversions. Having originated, managed, and closed residential and mixed-use transactions in major Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Sun Belt markets, Ms. Bakhteiarov’s total transaction volume is quickly approaching $2 billion. She holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Planning and Civil Engineering as well as a Master in City Planning with a focus in Housing, Community and Economic Development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.​