Eric Schames
Housing Executive & Advisor · Founder, CORE Housing · Los Angeles
Eric Schames is a Los Angeles housing executive, advisor, and board member. He builds the operations, infrastructure, and strategy that let mission-driven housing organizations run, strengthen, and scale.
He is the founder of CORE Housing — Comprehensive Outcomes, Resources & Empowerment — an umbrella platform for whole-person housing that spans housing operations, real estate, strategic partnerships, advisory work, technology, and program coordination. Through CORE Housing, Eric connects people with housing, resources, and opportunities and builds the systems that keep them housed. He works as an operator, coordinator, and advisor.
Eric has spent years on the operational side of California housing and community organizations, building the back-office and operational engine — finance, contracting, compliance operations, reporting, and partnerships — that lets programs deliver and grow.
Focus Areas
- Housing Operations & Infrastructure
- Organizational Strategy & Advisory
- Strategic Partnerships
- Real Estate
- Program Coordination
- Technology & Future Initiatives
CORE Housing
CORE Housing — Comprehensive Outcomes, Resources & Empowerment — is an umbrella platform for whole-person housing, spanning housing operations and infrastructure, real estate, strategic partnerships, advisory work, technology, and program coordination. CORE Housing builds and coordinates the systems behind mission-driven housing — connecting people with housing, resources, and opportunities and strengthening the operations that keep them housed.
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Founder & Principal, CORE Housing · Los Angeles
Education
J.D., Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
B.A., Art History, UCLA — magna cum laude