Andy Waxman serves as senior vice president of real estate development for The Community Builders, Inc. (TCB), a position he has held since 2024. Andy has led TCB’s real estate development activities in New England since he started in 2018 and has been in the community development field for over 30 years with a focus on various types of affordable housing, as well as neighborhood-based, job creating commercial real estate projects.

During his time at TCB, Andy has overseen several types of development work including multiple large scale public housing redevelopments, multiple Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) developments – including New England’s largest PSH building, a variety of partnerships with community development corporations, church groups and a health center in addition to a variety of other affordable and mixed income developments.

Prior to working at TCB, Andy has worked in real estate development leadership positions in Boston and Washington, D.C. Andy served for seven years as director of real estate at the Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation (DBEDC), where he lead their Choice Neighborhood work, and eight years at the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation (JPNDC), with an initial focus exclusively on commercial redevelopment efforts transitioning to associate director of real estate. Additionally, Andy worked at the City of Boston’s Department of Neighborhood Development, and at Washington Innercity Self Help (WISH), a small CDC in Washington, D.C.

Andy holds a master’s degree in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he won the Outstanding Thesis Award for his work on urban commercial district revitalization in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He also earned a certificate in Non-Profit Management and Leadership from Boston College, and a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin. He has served on the boards of JPNDC and Hyde Jackson Square Main Streets.