Sustainability is catching on — and it’s becoming prevalent in many financial strategies in commercial real estate. To lift the curtain on how these strategies are being employed at a financial institution, we invited Wells Fargo’s Kelly Souza, managing director in the Sustainable Finance & Advisory Group, onto the show.

Chapter 1: 00:00 – Types of sustainable finance strategies
Chapter 2: 08:10 – Trends in commercial real estate
Chapter 3: 13:34 – Sustainability in action
Chapter 4: 18:35 – Opportunities for efficiency/resiliency
Chapter 5: 22:21 – Wells Fargo's Top 10 Sustainability Trends

Have we turned the corner yet on the market? Mike Donnelly, part of the Multifamily Research team and author of the 2024 Midyear Multifamily Outlook report joins our co-hosts to help answer this question. Together, they break down how the economy performed in the past six months, how high supply is impacting markets across the country and the forecasted origination for the year.

Chapter 1: 00:00 – Economic performance in the past six months
Chapter 2: 03:07 – The multifamily market and "Corey Aber's paradox"
Chapter 3: 08:23 – Metro-level multifamily housing analysis
Chapter 4: 12:14 – How the debt market is faring

More and more, we're seeing a growing trend in the combination of sustainability and resident-centered housing practices in multifamily housing. Tina Tagliaferri from FCP, one of our 2024 Impact Sponsor organizations, shares how they're achieving this combination by partnering with service providers and collaborating with property management teams to create a better resident experience.

Chapter 1: 00:00 – FCP's approach to sustainability and resident-centered housing
Chapter 2: 07:50 – Getting started with service providers
Chapter 3: 09:28 – Providing a resident service and measuring its success
Chapter 4: 13:36 – Challenges and ways to overcome them
Chapter 5: 16:44 – Sustainable resident-centered housing practices and climate risk
Chapter 6: 23:35 – Tips on getting started

It's that time of year again: We welcome back the Ivory Innovations team to talk about the sixth Ivory Prize in Housing Affordability, an annual award recognizing ambitious, feasible, and scalable solutions to housing affordability. The team shares the interesting trends with this year's finalists, areas for opportunities and, of course, the 2024 winners.

Chapter 1: 0:00 – Themes in this year's finalists
Chapter 2: 8:07 – Areas of opportunities
Chapter 3: 11:16 – Construction and Design finalists
Chapter 4: 15:14 – Finance finalists
Chapter 5: 22:27 – Policy and Regulatory Reform finalists
Chapter 6: 29:00 – And the winners are...

Multifamily business models have evolved to focus on both resident opportunities and climate responsibility — to make a difference in both the community and for residents. In this episode, Thomas Stanchak, director of sustainability at Stoneweg US, dives into how they've incorporated sustainable practices into their business model.

Chapter 1: 00:00 – Overview of Stoneweg and implementing a sustainability strategy
Chapter 2: 10:03 – Cathedral Thinking for building performance plans
Chapter 3: 19:37 – Applying patient commitment to physical resiliency
Chapter 4: 24:42 – Technology that support sustainable practices
Chapter 5: 30:57 – Resident sentiments to sustainability

America’s Rental Housing 2024 report by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University has found that although high volumes of new supply has come online, more renter households are cost burdened than ever before, and a record number of people are experiencing homelessness. We welcome back Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, senior research associate and lead author, to discuss what these findings mean for the nation's renters and multifamily industry.

Chapter 1: 00:00 – Overview of the key findings
Chapter 2: 12:27 – Composition of today's renters
Chapter 3: 16:28 – The pressing issue of climate change
Chapter 4: 19:26 – Evolving rental assistance and homelessness

In this episode, we explore innovations to the affordable housing application and qualification process with Christine Wendell, co-founder and CEO of Pronto Housing. Pronto Housing is a software start-up with a mission to make the affordable housing process more accessible, intuitive and efficient for residents.

Chapter 1: 00:00 – Navigating the affordable housing landscape
Chapter 2: 06:56 – Streamlining access and reducing application fatigue
Chapter 3: 09:58 – The missing middle: Bridging gaps in affordable housing
Chapter 4: 14:57 – Transitioning from a paper-driven process

In this episode, we explore the human impact of multifamily development with Jamar Adams, founder of Essence Development. Essence is a social impact firm dedicated to bringing hope to affordable, workforce and mixed-income housing communities.

Chapter 1: 00:00 – Connections between property, market, and people
Chapter 2: 06:00 – Building communities with the community
Chapter 3: 10:27 – Healthcare, healthy food and hope
Chapter 4: 27:17 – The human impact of design