Two coasts. Seven years. One conviction.
Jeremy’s real-estate career runs from the walk-ups of New York City to the multifamily corridors of California. He has signed leases in both markets, rented to strangers in both markets, and watched what happens when housing works — and what happens when it doesn’t.
The worst landlords taught him exactly what to never become: the kind who treats a signed lease like a finish line, who drags repairs for months, who quietly raises rent on the people least able to push back. The kindest landlords taught him something more valuable. They showed up. They returned calls. They understood that a tenant who feels respected stays longer, treats the property better, and refers the next three.
38 years at The New Jewish Home
Jeremy didn’t come to medicine by way of medicine — he came to it by way of his mother. Annette Candelaria dedicated 38 years to The New Jewish Home, where she had a significant impact across multiple programs and communities. She was instrumental in opening the Manhattan Adult Medical Day Center, expanding vital services to members of the community. Ten years later, she was appointed Director of the Bronx Adult Day Care Program, where she provided strong leadership for five years.
During the COVID-19 pandemic and the temporary closure of adult day programs, she worked for two years alongside physicians, nurses, and certified nursing assistants in the COVID unit, supporting frontline professionals who devoted themselves during an unprecedented crisis. She later played a key role in the successful reopening of both the Manhattan and Bronx Adult Medical Day Centers, ensuring participants could once again access essential services and support.
Growing up around her work, Jeremy learned what healthcare really demands of the people inside it. The shifts that don’t end at five. The exams studied for at the kitchen table. The dignity owed to anyone who has chosen a life of caring for strangers. International Medical Graduates — the doctors crossing oceans to serve in American hospitals — carry that load and a visa and a moving truck. They deserve a housing partner who gets it.
Why the classrooms matter
Right out of high school, Jeremy worked as a paraprofessional in special education — one-on-one with kids who learn differently and need someone in their corner. It is the hardest, most undervalued work in any school building. The pay is too low, the funding is never enough, and the people who do it show up anyway.
That experience is why 10% of every donation Life Capital receives is sent to DonorsChoose — specifically targeting classrooms for children with special needs — in the donor’s name. The doctors we house are betting their careers on America. The least we can do is bet a little of every dollar back on the kids and the teachers America too often forgets.
What Life Capital stands for
- Tenants are people, not transactions. Especially the ones working 80-hour weeks to save someone else’s life.
- Landlords deserve serious tenants. Pre-screened, hospital-backed, and held accountable by the program that placed them.
- 48 hours, not 48 days. Match-day timelines don’t bend. Our process doesn’t either.
- Give some of it back. 10% of every donation, in the donor’s name, funds DonorsChoose classrooms for children with special needs — the work Jeremy started his career doing.