About AHI Services
Public housing, circa 1960
LIHTC New Construction Rental
At AHI, we have three core beliefs which structure our approach to housing. All of our services and products are guided by these beliefs:
1. Housing is like an ecosystem :
The housing sector affects and is affected by many other sectors; it is best thought of as an evolving ecosystem. Like an ecosystem, it can be either healthy and self-sustaining, or diseased and inherently unstable; and like an ecosystem, it is complex, yet can be understood by employing strategic concepts which simplify without becoming overly reductive.
2. Housing problems are global, but solutions are local:
There is great value in international dialogue on cross-cutting issues; but real change in housing ecosystems must be driven by local actors. We take very seriously the need to find partners in local markets in order to spark and sustain real improvement. Furthermore, our focus is worldwide: we do not exclude developed countries, which face their own particular challenges and which often have a history of housing interventions from which valuable lessons can be extracted.
3. Public-private partnerships are necessary for sustainable solutions to housing problems :
The scale and nature of housing ecosystems are such that the public and private sectors must act in concert if sustainable improvements are to be realized. Only solutions which align public and private capital can reliably achieve system-wide outcomes. Ultimately, this means that 'hard' (market rate and terms) capital must be strategically blended with 'soft' (below market rate) capital.