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Where Experience Meets Innovation.

Our Strategy

Our Approach

AHDC is committed to building new relationships and embracing new project challenges. This mentality, pursued over decades, has created a diverse and outstanding track record in every one of our professional capacities. Our unsurpassed industry knowledge, multidisciplinary framework, and ability to problem-solve in the face of social, political, and practical challenges are key to our strength and longevity.

Our Capacities

Our deep understanding of common development and financing pitfalls allows us to navigate around obstacles before they arise. Our problem solving process gives us a layered approach to project planning, ensuring timeline progress, financial feasibility, and project success.

Our Commitment

Our pursuits are based on a commitment to positive outcomes for our clients, partners, and communities. We shape and maintain a triple bottom line: Community Building, Environmental Wellness, and Economic Success towards promoting sustainability, community and a sense of home. Our track record of excellence is a result of our pride of ownership and continued hands-on involvement and management.

Our Environment

We partner with knowledgeable and award-winning sustainable design professionals and Green Building technology consultants to ensure efficient and effective design. We are striving to be Net Zero on many of our new construction developments and go beyond current Title 24 requirements to incorporate measures that create energy efficiency saving for our residents as well as the overall operations. Some of these measures include: triple pane windows with low U-factors and ratings that exceed building code, radiant barrier roofing and cool roofing, energy efficiency appliances, including HVAC and water heaters, LED lighting throughout the units and site design, large Photovoltaic systems that are designed early on in the design process to ensure efficient building orientation.

We have developed 99 projects in 51 cities and 31 counties over 35 years.

Vertically Integrated Services

Through over 30 years of financing, owning and operating multifamily real estate, we have built detailed strategies for maximizing the performance of a project team while simultaneously guiding financing and development design choices. Our development strategies result in strong financial performance, while providing an attractive asset to the community that has longevity in the market.
Our proprietary financial pro formas make an extensive assessment of funding sources and analysis available to our partners. We also negotiate with debt and equity sources and provide full management of underwriting and due diligence processes.
Entitlements AHDC collaborates with local municipalities to incorporate required and desired design guidelines. We work with community members to solicit and gain support of project concept and design.
We manage all aspects of property owner negotiation and contract execution to ensure that terms and conditions with brokers and land owners correspond with financing timelines.
We partner with knowledgeable and award-winning sustainable design professionals, BUILD and Green Building technology consultants to ensure efficient and effective design for our new construction development. We utilize programs available to our existing portfolio properties such as PG&E EV Charge Network Program, PG&E’s Energy Savings Assistance Program: Common Area Measures (ESA CAM), Building Initiative for Low-Emissions Development Program – BUILD, and the Solar on Multifamily Affordable Housing (SOMAH) programs.
We engage construction professionals from the initial design process onward in order to ensure cost effectiveness, incorporation of value engineering techniques and practices, and to encourage sustainability.
We maintain constant communication with contractors, including review and evaluation of weekly reports, draws, change orders, RFIs, and submittals to ensure every project stays on schedule and within budget.
We’re committed to preserving affordability through thoughtful improvements that enhance both livability and sustainability.
We evaluate the primary market to implement strategies to ensure that each property is desirable and attractive to potential residents. We constantly monitor market factors, absorption schedules, tax credit delivery, schedules and lease up plans with management teams during the lease up process.
Property financials and occupancy reports are evaluated monthly and include site visits to assess capital needs. Our process continually examines current debt structures and refinance/resyndication opportunities.

Creating Value

Creating Value for Clients, Partners & Investors

AHDC’s development expertise is equally matched by the skill and ingenuity demonstrated by our financing abilities. Our longstanding relationships with core clients and financing partners in the industry prove and reinforce the strength and adaptability of our financing capacities.

Pride of Ownership & Hands-On Asset Management

AHDC has maintained standards of excellence over decades through our continued hands-on involvement in every property. The concerns of many communities and interested parties are answered by the attention and care that we pay to ownership and management in the face of social, political and practical challenges. Our long-term ownership approach to our portfolio allows us to provide our residents with a safe and desirable living environment, while allowing us to protect our investment in the property.

Financing Success

$765M

Awarded in competitive financing allocations since 1990

$545M

in Low Income Housing Tax Credit allocations

$220M

in Tax Exempt Bond allocations

Amy M. McClain

Partner / Ballard Spahr, LLP

We have had the honor of working with AHDC on several affordable housing transactions for nearly a decade, first in AHDC’s role as a development consultant for a client of ours and, most recently, on behalf of AHDC in its role as the developer of myriad California affordable housing efforts. Laurie Doyle and Erik Holland and the entire AHDC team take seriously their role in developing sustainable, high quality affordable housing while putting the needs of the residents at the forefront. They are thorough, thoughtful and consistent. We are grateful to be able to assist them to fulfill their mission of providing affordable housing under what can be challenging circumstances.