Woda Group

The Woda Cooper Story

Woda Cooper Companies, Inc. is an employee-owned, vertically-integrated affordable housing firm with 730+ employees. With just a few thousand dollars in capital, Jeffrey Woda founded Woda Construction and Development in 1990 to build single-family homes and apartments. David Cooper, Jr. served as the company’s legal counsel from its inception, and joined the firm full time in 2003. The two men saw opportunities to utilize the emerging Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program to develop much-needed affordable housing, and formed the partnership that would become The Woda Group, Inc. and eventually, Woda Cooper Companies.

Today, Woda Cooper Companies owns and operates more than 350 properties and 16,000 housing units. Woda Cooper consistently ranks among the top affordable housing developers and owners in the country by Affordable Housing Finance. The firm operates in 16 states in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Southeast, and has a development portfolio of $1.5 billion.