Invest In Austin's People

Preserve Austin's Housing

Join the Austin Housing Conservancy’s $50 million capital raise to protect workforce housing for Austinites. Make money. Feel good. Preserve what makes Austin special.

Join the Austin Housing Conservancy’s $50 million capital raise to protect workforce housing for Austinites.
Make money. Feel good. Preserve what makes Austin special.

INVEST IN YOUR COMMUNITY,
YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
AND YOUR EMPLOYEES

Austin is in the midst of an affordability crisis that is affecting its core workforce such as educators, first responders, hospitality employees and more middle-income individuals vital to the city’s livability. Unless immediate action is taken to preserve affordable housing for middle-income families, Austin will suffer the same fate as San Francisco, Seattle, Boston and other major cities with unlivable rent and cost-of-living expenses. Core employees will be priced out of the city. Your children’s schools lose more teachers, your local ER loses more nurses and your company loses more employees.
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Wage data shown above is based on HUD published Median Family Income for 2021 and YE market rental data from Yardi Matrix and Rentcafe.com

Failure to act now risks your child losing his favorite teacher, your fire station losing its crew chief, or your local ER losing its best triage nurse

YOUR CHILDREN’S EDUCATION

Entry Level: $38,891
Area average: $59,420
High school soccer coach: $41,440

YOUR FAMILY’S HEALTH

Nurse (LPN): $41,512 Cardiac technician: $47,250 Surgical assistant: $47,800

YOUR COMMUNITY

Police officer: $58,900
Software engineer: $55,886 (entry-level)
Paralegal: $58,326

YOUR HOME

HVAC Technician: $42,990
Plumber: $58,370
Property Manager: $65,939

Source: SmartAsset/BusinessInsider, Paycheck to Paycheck/National Housing Conference

The Austin Housing Conservancy is one solution addressing Austin's workforce affordability crisis.

$66,500

Annual income needed to afford a
2-bedroom apartment in Austin

Annual income needed to afford a
2-bedroom apartment in Austin

The Conservancy is the best, most agile solution to stabilize housing expenses for teachers, first responders, maintenance professionals, medical technicians, their families and others at risk of being priced out of Austin.  The fund invests and preserves rapidly disappearing multifamily properties currently affordable to moderate and middle-income individuals and families by maintaining affordable rental rates that increase proportionally with wage growth.

Invest in Greater Austin

An open-ended social impact private equity fund.
The first fund to preserve workforce housing for the long-term.
A direct investment in Austinites who don’t have assistance programs available to low-income residents.
A flexible, discretionary, risk-adjusted investment strategy that preserves multifamily rental housing for moderate- to middle-income central Texas employees and their families.

The fund earns triple-bottom-line returns

SOCIAL

Preserve affordable housing for Austin’s workforce

FINANCIAL

Earn steady, risk-adjusted returns in the high single-digits

ENVIRONMENTAL

Limit environmental impact of new construction and keep employees close to their workplaces

The Research

As an investment vehicle, Moderate Income Rental Housing (MIRH) delivers consistent, predictable returns, demand for affordable rental housing is surging, and interest in Impact-focused investments is growing. MIRH compares favorably in terms of its return and has a lower variation in total returns from year to year (risk) since 2011 as compared to other common asset classes.

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