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Small Multifamily Property Management and Ownership: Trends and Insights

Summary of a Terner Center Report (January, 2024)

Small Multifamily Property Management and Ownership: Trends and Insights

Summary of a Terner Center Report (January, 2024)

Small multifamily properties are an important source of unsubsidized affordable housing. This blog summarizes key findings from the Terner Center Report that studied various characteristics of small multifamily rental stock.

Innovation & tech

AI as a co-pilot for human faculty is transforming Commercial Real Estate (CRE)

Innovation & tech

AI as a co-pilot for human faculty is transforming Commercial Real Estate (CRE)

Leveraging AI with adequate human oversight can be a game changer for CRE. This article touches upon the top use cases of AI for the CRE industry and how we at Builders Patch are harnessing the power of AI. We emphasize how AI will act as a co-pilot for humans and shouldn't be viewed as a tool that will make human faculty redundant.

Affordable housing

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Affordable housing

How to apply for Low Income Housing Tax Credit? - Complete guide to the LIHTC application process

Affordable housing

Here is how you can navigate the LIHTC application process

The LIHTC program has been crucial in providing federal financing to create affordable housing for low to moderate-income families in America. Learn more about how it works and how developers can apply for it.

Affordable housing

Innovative housing solutions around the world

Affordable housing

Explore the exciting and innovative housing solutions around the world

Social housing programs in Austria, Finland, Norway, and the UK

The combined problems of rising housing costs, diminishing home ownership, and homelessness are not unique to the United States. In this blog post, we look at and compare different government initiatives on social housing in the UK, Austria, Finland, and Norway.

Affordable housing

Housing as a human right: Will it solve the affordable housing crisis?

Affordable housing

Will considering housing as a human right solve the affordable housing crisis?

Can declaring housing as a human right solve our nation's affordable housing crisis? In this commentary, we explore other countries' implementations of housing as a human right and discuss whether or not it can help America, too.

Report summaries

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State of the Nation's Housing 2023: Are homeowners ‘quiet quitting’ the U.S. housing market?

Summary of the JCHS report

State of the Nation's Housing 2023: A JCHS Report Summary

Summary of the JCHS report

Key takeaways on the US Housing Market from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies' annual report on housing (2023)

A severe shortage of affordable and available homes

Summary of The Gap Report 2023

Addressing the Crisis: Analyzing the Severe Shortage of Affordable and Available Homes

Summary of The Gap Report 2023

Key takeaways on affordable rental housing shortage from The Gap report (2023), published by the National Low Income Housing Coalition.

Sustainable affordable housing: strategies for financing an inclusive energy transition

Summary of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York report

Sustainable affordable housing: find out the different strategies for financing an inclusive energy transition

Summary of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York report

Summary and highlights from the report released by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on how we can build sustainable, energy-efficient and climate resilient housing

Innovation & tech

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Innovation & tech

Integrations with 3rd party softwares & incorporating AI for CRE loan closings

Innovation & tech

Streamlining CRE Loan Closings: Integrating AI and 3rd Party Software

Effective flow of data in and out of your current systems & how to include AI solutions

How to minimize your software suite and make the best out of the systems essential to your organization. Builders Patch is the central repository for all your deal data and workflows, which you can plug into other systems facilitating seamless data transfer with all your other systems.

Innovation & tech

Role of Proptech in today's Commercial Real Estate Market (CRE)

Innovation & tech

The Role of Proptech: Shaping Today's CRE Market

From redefining how tenant satisfaction is measured to revolutionizing market data analysis and the very way buildings are constructed and managed, technology is the linchpin of this transformation. Take a look at the major trends and forecasts in this disruptive era of CRE tech.

Innovation & tech

Student team from Carnegie Mellon brings fresh ideas to housing with Builders Patch

Innovation & tech

Carnegie Mellon Students Revolutionize Housing with Builders Patch

Collaboration project with the Integrated Innovation Institute at CMU

We asked a group of MA students with diverse academic background to find solutions to addressing the supply-demand gap in housing and pinpoint and guide HFAs and developers on where housing should be built.

Housing policy

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Governor Hochul’s statewide plan to tackle New York’s housing crisis

The New York Housing Compact

What is the New York Housing Compact?

The New York Housing Compact

Review and summary of Governor Hochul’s newly announced strategy to address New York’s housing crisis.

Review of Proposition HHH and what to expect from the new United to House L.A. measure?

Housing policy initiatives in Los Angeles (part 02)

Measure ULA and Proposition HHH: Understanding these critical measures

Housing policy initiatives in Los Angeles (part 02)

Review of the new taxation proposal to tackle the housing shortage and homelessness crisis in Los Angeles, as supported by a powerful grassroots movement.

How government funding is distributed

Government funding of affordable housing, Part 2 (series)

Find out how government funding is distributed

Government funding of affordable housing, Part 2 (series)

In the second installment of our series on government funding of affordable housing, we talk about the financing institutions that manage and distribute the funds, their background, and how they operate.

Product updates

Product updates

NYCHDC partners with Builders Patch to support the financing and underwriting of affordable housing developments

Product updates

NYCHDC's partnership with Builders Patch in financing and underwriting of affordable housing developments

We are proud to announce that New York City Housing Development Corporation (NYCHDC) is partnering with Builders Patch to manage their loan underwriting process.

Product updates

Introducing the Builders Patch Due Diligence Checklist

Product updates

Learn what you can achieve with the Builders Patch Due Diligence Checklist

With our new due diligence feature, applying to different lenders has never been easier.

Expert talk

Building affordable housing from Rwanda to Brooklyn

In conversation with Brian Halusan of St. Nick's Alliance

From Rwanda to Brooklyn: Building Affordable Housing Across Continents

In conversation with Brian Halusan of St. Nick's Alliance

We sat down with Brian Halusan, Director of Real Estate Development at St. Nicks Alliance to talk about his experiences, both thrills and challenges, of developing affordable housing and community infrastructure projects in different places, from the highlands of Rwanda to your right-by-the-corner neighborhood in Brooklyn.

Meet Builders Patch founder Kanan Ajmera

From architecture to underwriting to software creation: the story of a fintech product

Kanan Ajmera: Up Close With Builders Patch Founder and CEO

From architecture to underwriting to software creation: the story of a fintech product

Get to know Kanan's background story and what motivated an underwriter to build a software for the affordable housing industry in our podcast.

Events

Did you get a chance to catch us at your nearest housing conference?

Our attendance of OFN, NCSHA, SCANPH and AHFLive 2022

Builders Patch Conference Updates: Our takeaways from being on the road

Our attendance of OFN, NCSHA, SCANPH and AHFLive 2022

We've been busy attending multiple housing conferences this fall. Here is a brief update on our experiences and a sum of our main takeaways from these conferences.

MFE Conference 2021

The revolution of technology in multifamily housing

Our key takeaways from the MFE Conference 2021

The revolution of technology in multifamily housing

We recently attended the 2021 Multifamily Executive Conference in Las Vegas where Builders Patch CEO Kanan Ajmera presented.

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Digitization & AI in multifamily asset management with automated data onboarding, aggregation & analytics.

Unlocking the true value of asset operating data empowers asset managers to make informed decisions, optimize performance, and seize lucrative opportunities in the ever-evolving CRE industry.

Policy, technology and construction: key factors to scale multifamily housing

One third of the US population lives in rental housing, and that housing stock is rapidly aging. We need to upgrade our housing stock and build more housing supply. So what can we do to make that happen?

HousingCount

Decoding the housing crisis

A public data project to track and analyze the rental housing shortage across the country, highlighting where additional units are needed most.

Shortage statistics for households earning Under 50% AMI

21

states with severe shortage

75%

of households rent-burdened

4.5M

total shortage of affordable units

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Case studies

Hear from our customers: in-depth case studies on how various organizations, from housing developers to HFAs and CDFIS are adopting our product features.

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Industry expertise

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