Often, the unfunded capital needs of affordable housing properties are understood as unanticipated crises that owners are responsible for fixing. What if we shift the frame?
Read More
How will using modular construction affect your project’s development process? This is the second part of a series addressing practical and values-based questions about modular building that matter to nonprofit owners and developers of affordable multifamily housing.
Read More
How will using modular construction affect your project’s hard costs? This is the first part of a series addressing practical and values-based questions about modular building that matter to nonprofit owners and developers of affordable multifamily housing.
Read More
What are the financial, social, and environmental impacts of making the shift from onsite to off-site construction? This series addresses practical and values-based questions about modular building that matter to nonprofit owners and developers of affordable multifamily housing.
Read More
How can we get to a place where there is reliable funding to support the long-term physical needs of Oregon’s affordable housing? We can start with two steps.
Read More
Affordable housing is part of our public infrastructure, like roads and schools. Whose responsibility is it to pay for the physical needs of these properties as they age?
Read More
Parents of young children trade broken plumbing and grinding rent inflation for affordability, comfort, convenience, and more time with family at ROSE Community Development’s new housing community, Metro reports.
Read More
Our client needed to understand her affordable-housing portfolio’s future capital needs on an aggregate level. But her data was siloed in property-specific CNAs that didn’t speak a common language.
Read More
Meyer Memorial Trust funds will support a new model—using modular construction, zero-energy design, and land-trust financing—to deliver affordable homeownership to rural Oregon.
Read More
By building housing more efficiently, we can provide more affordable homes for people who need them. Can modular offsite construction help owners meet the challenge?
Read More
While other industries have adopted factory-production methods to reduce cost and waste and to improve quality, the construction industry still produces buildings much as it did 100 years ago—with relatively little gain in efficiency.
Read More
Compliance failures cause headaches and create serious risks. But effective compliance management can bring real financial benefits. That’s where a compliance chart comes in.
Read More
New to modular? View this slide deck to get a quick course on navigating the modular construction process and to see some completed results.
Read More
My colleagues at HDC and I are putting our voices behind the YES for Affordable Housing campaign, because we believe everyone in our region deserves a safe, affordable home.
Read More
Building Asset Management Solutions, or BAMS, builds capacity across organizational teams to manage affordable housing portfolios for long-term financial and physical health.
Read More