Swede Hanson recently joined the Communities Foundation of Texas (“CFT”) as a consultant and will lead the design and implementation of its new $50.0 million housing impact fund, partnering closely with CFT’s leadership team. As CFT’s Senior Advisor for Housing, he will develop the housing fund’s processes and lending standards, cultivate and evaluate aligned investment opportunities, and strengthen the Dallas housing ecosystem through technical assistance and strategic insights. Outside of his work with CFT, he is the entrepreneurial founder of Smart Living Residential, LLC, a Dallas-based real estate platform focused on the development of high-quality, mixed income housing properties primarily located within the city’s southern sector. Smart Living Residential’s first project, The Finch, is a 153-unit Class-A apartment community completed in August 2025 that emphasizes intentional design, attainable rents, and a thoughtfully curated resident experience. Mr. Hanson brings over two decades of broad real estate expertise spanning development, lending, leasing, note sales, and capital markets. Prior to forming Smart Living Residential, he served as a Senior Vice President within Bank OZK’s Real Estate Specialties Group, where he led a team managing a $4.0 billion national construction- and bridge-loan portfolio secured by multifamily, mixed-use, office, and hospitality assets. Before Bank OZK, he spent time in New York City working in Credit Suisse Securities’ CMBS conduit platform and later in JLL’s Capital Markets Group, where he supported loan originations and distressed loan sale assignments nationwide. Mr. Hanson holds a Master of Business Administration in Finance from Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business, and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Distribution from Texas A&M University.