How to Solve the Affordable Housing Crisis in 2025

How to supply the affordable housing that American cities so critically need in 2025? AFIRE assembled a group of leading commercial real estate thinkers to provide their opinions. Echoing the sentiment of many of our executives, Landon Taylor, CEO of MacFarlane Partners, believes the solution is in public-private partnerships. “We need policy that really enables the development of more housing,” agrees Amy Price, president, BGO.

That policy needs to come from numerous levels of government, according to our experts, who call for incentives from multiple levels of government. “It's not inappropriate to think that the housing sector needs continued incentives that are federally driven,” says Byron Carlock, director of legal and tax for AFIRE. “Because it takes capital to do this, and the capital markets have been shut down now for nearly three years.”

“Housing is very much a story about supply,” says Ann Cole, managing director of J.P. Morgan. “And what you really need in those markets is incentives to develop, incentives to create that supply.”

Also featuring context from:
Greg Lindsay, Senior Fellow, MIT Future Urban Collectives Lab
Will McIntosh, Global Head of Research, Affinius Capital
Steve Benjamin, Managing Partner & CEO, The Dermot Company
Sam Chandan, Founding Director & Professor, Chen Institute for Global Real Estate Finance, NYU Stern
Ted Willcocks, President & CEO, Triovest
Adam Falcheck, VP, Asset & Portfolio Management, DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners
Gunnar Branson, CEO, AFIRE

AFIRE POV interviews sum up how the industry’s experts are feeling about the most important topics in commercial real estate investing. Visit AFIRE’s website to learn more:
https://www.afire.org/

Established in 1988, the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE) is the association for international real estate investors focused on commercial property in the United States.

AFIRE currently welcomes more than 180 member organizations from 25 countries with approximately $3 trillion AUM in the US.

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