Matt Rule

Matt Rule is Senior Vice President of Housing Development and Asset Management at National Church Residences (NCR) and the President of NCR Investment Corporation. Matt leads NCR’s acquisitions, development finance, originations, construction and asset management teams. In the past five years his team closed over 60 LIHTC transactions, purchased over 3,000 affordable senior units and closed over $100,000,000 of new market rate senior housing production. Prior to joining NCR, Matt was a transactional attorney at Squire Sanders, LLP (currently known as Squire Patton Boggs) where he served as legal counsel for a variety of tax credit developers, syndicators, direct investors and lenders. Matt is a graduate from The Ohio State University Michael E Moritz College of Law where he graduated with distinction as Summa Cum Laude, Order of the Coif. Matt currently serves as a Board Member of Stewards for Affordable Housing for the Future (SAHF) and as a Board Member and immediate past president of the Ohio Housing Counsel (2022-2024). In the past he has served as a Member the National Affordable Housing Trust (2018-2020), a Board Member and Chair of the Nominating and Board Development Committee of the Central Ohio Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (2021-2023), a Board Member of the Upper Arlington Rotary Club (2018-2020), a member of the Upper Arlington Citizen Financial Review Task Force (2019), and as the Chair of the Finance Subcommittee of the Upper Arlington Community Center Feasibility Task Force (2020). In 2015, Affordable Housing Finance (AHF) named Matt as one of six Affordable Housing Young Leaders. Matt is an active member of Vineyard Church in Columbus, Ohio. Matt is married to Megan Rule and has four very energetic children.

Founded in 1961, National Church Residences is the country’s largest non-profit owner of senior affordable housing. National Church Residences owns over 20,000 units of affordable housing designed to serve the elderly, low-income families and persons with disabilities. National Church Residences’ mission also includes assisted living facilities, nursing homes, home health care, hospice, specialized Alzheimer’s care, and Continuing Care Retirement Communities. National Church Residences is a leader in integrating services into affordable housing.

HCC25 Session: Senior Housing Development Strategies