Tina White

Tina White is the founder of KHLOSED and a licensed New York City real estate broker with fifteen years of experience working across every level of the housing market — from luxury leasing on Wall Street to voucher-based placements in Far Rockaway.

Her career did not follow a straight line. It followed a life.

She grew up in South Jamaica, Queens, during the crack era. Her family fractured. She entered the foster care system. Years later, she found herself starting over as a single mother of twins, navigating a city with no safety net and no map. Real estate became her path back to stability — not as a career choice but as an act of survival.

Her early career took her to some of the most competitive corners of NYC real estate. She began working with high-net-worth clients in Manhattan, closing deals where tenants paid five thousand to twenty-five thousand dollars a month in rent. She learned how deals move when every party has resources, clarity, and a shared understanding of the process.

Then everything shifted.

She ended up in Far Rockaway, leasing apartments in a building still recovering from Hurricane Sandy. Most of her clients were families leaving the shelter system — people who had vouchers, who had done everything the system asked, and who were still losing their housing.

Over time, those families began sharing stories that had nothing to do with square footage or lease terms. They spoke about loss. About instability. About a life that once made sense.

The system does not recognize grief. It translates it into missed steps, delayed paperwork, and noncompliance on a file. Tina recognized the gap between what the system was recording and what was actually happening in that room. That gap became the foundation of KHLOSED.

She spent the next decade building Khlosed — originally as a real estate deal operations platform — before pivoting to apply everything she learned to the population she came from. KHLOSED Housing exists because she decided that understanding the problem was no longer enough, and that the infrastructure to fix it needed to be built by someone who had spent a lifetime inside it.