Housing affordability is one of America's greatest challenges. There is a deficit of approximately 4.5 million homes, and the lower end of the socioeconomic ladder is most impacted. According to a recent report, the number of low-rent units declined 2.1 million in the...
Affordable and Workforce Housing Fund Officially Closed
The ASI Multi-Family Impact Fund, LP (MFIF), focused on the preservation of multi-family housing primarily serving minority populations and lower income residents, has officially closed. The fund is aimed at helping to fill the incredible demand for...
Alliant Strategic Investments is Now W&D Affordable Preservation
Alliant Strategic Investments, fund manager of the Multi-Family Impact Fund, LP featured on the CommonGood Capital platform, recently announced a significant milestone in its integration journey with Walker & Dunlop a publicly-traded real estate...
CommonGood Capital White Paper Featured in ADISA Quarterly Magazine
Don't miss our new Private Credit: The Original Impact Investment white paper from Stephen Hester, CFA, CommonGood's VP of Investments - as recently featured in ADISA's AI Quarterly magazine (Volume 17, Issue 2). The paper provides insights into the historical...
Affordable Housing is Key to my Impact Investing Journey
In 2015, I was increasingly concerned with protecting the downside in our personal investments. At that point in my career, I had been in the financial services industry for 20 years. Nearly 18 of those years were directly involved in different types of real estate:...
Making an Impact In Our Own Backyard
CommonGood Capital is proud to announce the formation of a new consulting relationship we've established with a local non-profit in Orlando. CommonGood will leverage it's experience in both impact funds in general and impact due diligence to help the non-profit create...
Takeaways from Walker & Dunlop’s Latest Multifamily Outlook Report
Walker & Dunlop released their Multifamily Outlook for the first half of 2023. The report is full of insights from their seasoned team of commercial real estate professionals, clients, and partners in the multifamily space, in which they are an industry...
ASI Impact Report Available
Alliant Strategic Investments (ASI), the manager behind the ASI Multifamily Impact Fund, recently released their Impact Report for 2022. In short, ASI focused on improvements both in the properties they served and in their ability to streamline internal processes...
Observations from an Affordable Housing On-Site Visit
Having been to many Alliant Strategic assets in the past, it was a privilege earlier this month to take a few RIAs on a site visit and due diligence tour of the first property acquired in ASI Multi-Family Impact Fund. Oak Hill Village is a 181 unit property...
ASI Multifamily Impact Fund, LP Acquires Crosswinds Apartments
The ASI Multi-Family Impact Fund, LP, which is focused on providing Affordable and Workforce housing primarily serving minority populations and lower income residents, recently acquired Crosswinds Apartments - an affordable, 109-unit multifamily property situated in...
Change Your Mindset
Forty minutes south of Orlando, I sat in an old prison “classroom” with 40 men all working towards improvement, change and new beginnings. While an observer could easily tell the outward difference between the volunteers and the men in “blues,” that same observer...
MFIF Schedules Second Investor Close
The ASI Multi-Family Impact Fund (MFIF), formed by Alliant Strategic Investments (“ASI”) and CommonGood Capital, recently made some exciting progress as the second investor close was announced to occur on January 16th. The MFIF sources, acquires, enhances,...
We are coming to a city near you!
CommonGood Capital and Alliant Strategic are planning on-site housing visits in Q1 & Q2 of 2023 in 5 cities including Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, Cleveland, and Dallas. These on-site visits will last about 3 hours, and will allow you to see first-hand what...
Whitepaper: The Renter’s Dilemma
The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) estimates there is a shortage of at least 7 million affordable housing units in the U.S. today. There is no single definition for affordable housing, but a rule of thumb in law and practice is affordable housing must...
ASI Multifamily Impact Fund, LP Acquires Oak Hill Village Apartments
The ASI Multi-Family Impact Fund, LP, which is focused on providing Affordable and Workforce housing primarily serving minority populations and lower income residents, recently acquired Oak Hill Village Apartments - an affordable, 181-unit multifamily property...
The Scale of the US Affordable Housing Crisis
There are numerous human and financial factors pertaining to affordable housing. As of the most recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau, over 30 U.S. states, including Florida, California, and Texas – the three largest by population - have at least 5% of adults...
The Values Of Older And New Generations Are Increasingly Difficult To Reconcile
Wealthmanagement.com recently published a great article on how family offices are seeing new challenges in succession planning due to the increasingly wider investment values differences between older and younger generations... "In particular, succession...
Celebrating 5 Years of Impact
At 40, as an executive at a leading alternative asset management firm, a back surgery forced me to slow down and become acutely aware of my own limitations physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Five weeks into that journey I sat at my couch and watched a DVD...