Since October 2019, Mr. Jacobs serves as Relationship Manager at First Bank and Trust (LA). Prior to that, he was a commercial Loan Officer at Hope Enterprise Corporation, a CDFI serving five southern states (AL, LA, MS, AR). His focal activities were to develop and manage a commercial loan portfolio with an emphasis on funding senior, secured loans for business and
real estate projects, tax credit financings, grocery retail financings, and loans to emerging small businesses (2015-2019).
Mr. Jacobs previously served as the Principal for Jacobs Services (2013-2015), located in a LIC, which delivers disaster recovery services to states and municipalities impacted by Superstorm Sandy related to the deployment of Community Development Block Grant funding (CDBG) and
related planning. In addition, he is a Board Member of Reconcile New Orleans and Crescent City Community Land Trust of New Orleans.
Prior to this, from 2008-2013, Mr. Jacobs was the Housing Policy Director, State of Louisiana Office of Community Development – Disaster Recovery Unit. He was responsible for coordinating policy development and implementation for the Louisiana Recovery Authority (LRA), the planning and coordinating body created in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita to plan for the recovery and rebuilding of Louisiana. LRA guides nearly $8 billion in Community Development Block Grant funds to restore housing in the state. Mr. Jacobs worked in collaboration with local, state and federal agencies to implement a housing tax credit program that created mixed-income housing developments and established a small rental repair program to restore rental housing units.