Rick is a San Francisco Bay Area native, a social entrepreneur, and a pioneer in affordable housing construction. He has more than four decades’ experience building affordable and market rate housing across California. In 1978 he helped create Eden Housing, which builds affordable homes for workforces and formerly homeless Californians. In the early 1980s, he and visionary housing leader Don Terner teamed up to establish BRIDGE Housing, which builds homes for families of modest means who have been priced out of the market. These remain two of the most successful non-profit housing development  corporations in the nation. In 1988 he founded Holliday Development, and went on to become a leader in leveraging the benefits of private development to create vibrant infill developments. His groundbreaking projects included the Clocktower Lofts in SOMA (1989)….Central Station in West Oakland(2005)….and the Truckee Railyard(2010).

In 2017 he founded Factory OS, an ambitious effort to ease the housing challenge by scaling the off site production of multifamily housing. He served as CEO until late 2022. Factory OS is a new approach to housing construction, integrating the design and build processes, powered by local union labor and pioneering in-house research and innovation. 

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