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Affordable Housing: How to Develop Multifamily in any Urban Environment 
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Affordable Housing: How to Develop Multifamily in any Urban Environment
 at 
Harvard University 
Overview

In this program, learn how to identify and leverage affordable housing opportunities, whether you are a developer, lender, investor, or policymaker.

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Advanced

Course Level

UG Certificate

Affordable Housing: How to Develop Multifamily in any Urban Environment
 at 
Harvard University 
Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of completion
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Affordable Housing: How to Develop Multifamily in any Urban Environment
 at 
Harvard University 
Course details

Skills you will learn
What are the course deliverables?
  • Learn durable and globally applicable principles, practices, and approaches to change that apply to any urban affordable housing challenge.
  • For US practitioners, get a whole new lens through which to evaluate the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC), workforce, mixed-income, and hybrid tenure models such as rent-to-own or shared appreciation.
  • Discover how to adapt principles, practices, and approaches to individual contexts and draw lessons from dozens of countries around the world, developed and emerging.
  • Use a real-life, multi-part case study that demonstrates the universal aspects of affordable housing, and the crucial details of its local application.
  • Master the universal fundamentals of affordable housing, and understand how they can be adapted by place, policy, and laws – enabling participants to analyze the housing models needed in their changing cities
  • Recognize development and redevelopment opportunity in an urban context. Identify financial and subsidy resources that, if tapped, turn uneconomic eyesores into profitable development opportunities.
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  • Aimed at entrepreneurial executives who understand income-producing real estate and see opportunities for profit and impact beyond the narrow confines of currently established US programs, this immersive course both presents affordable housing as a distinctive real estate asset class and opens up new ways that developers, lenders, investors, and stakeholders can create successful properties, programs, and policies.
  • Every country in the world needs affordable housing, and every country's political and economic markets are always changing. Success requires specialist entrepreneurship by people and entities that can truly deliver a double-bottom-line value proposition: better living situations for deserving households alongside economically profitable and sustainable properties. This course puts students to work learning proven principles and applying them immediately in an immersive multi-part case exercise drawn from a real property in a real setting.
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Affordable Housing: How to Develop Multifamily in any Urban Environment
 at 
Harvard University 
Curriculum

Innovation, Investing, Real Estate, Sustainability

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