By JOSEPH LEAHY Ben Hamill was confused. Down the street from his house in Brentwood, a building was going up, and he and his wife couldn’t quite place what it was.…

Austin Multifamily Workforce Newsletter Q4 2017

We often hear calls for creative financing tools to build and maintain levels of affordability in high-pressure housing markets. Indeed, determining how to finance the “missing middle” has become a…

Enlightened Capital - Investing for Legacies There is a growing demand from investors to understand not just how much money they make, but how they make it. In the public…

By SYEDA HASAN • JAN 25, 2018 Participants at the Affordable Housing Accelerator, a program connecting Austin housing and development organizations working to expand affordable housing options in Austin. GABRIEL C. PÉREZ / KUT For…

1/18/2018 | BY SARAH BORCHERSEN-KETO A typical tenant at the Courtyard at Encanto in central Phoenix is a single mother working as a home health care aide. She makes about…

  A new program from the Impact Hub Austin social improvement accelerator has set its sights on solving the growing affordability crisis facing Austin’s middle- and lower-income communities. The Affordable Housing…

Austin Mayor Steve Adler has been meeting with potential investors for a so-called Austin Housing Conservancy Fund to preserve affordable housing in Austin, after getting initial startup money last year. But…

Looking to address the problem of Austin’s diminishing supply of middle-class housing, the head of the area’s lead real estate trade group is rounding up investors more interested in social…

When ​David Steinwedell joined ULI Austin in late 2013, it was a bit of a surprise pick after he had spent years in executive roles atop the world of finance.…