05/22/2023
Governor Maura Healey, Treasurer Deborah Goldberg, new Boston Housing Authority Administrator Kenzie Bok, and North America’s Building Trades Unions President…
04/19/2023
Join us to explore how Union pension funds and public investments are paving the way for affordable housing and equitable…
03/29/2023
AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust’s subsidiary Building America CDE, Inc. allocated $15 million in New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC) to rehabilitate…
02/10/2023
“Cities across our country face an affordability crisis only made worst by the pandemic. In Boston, union capital and union…
11/22/2022
California’s Bay Area region needs more housing for people experiencing homelessness. But in a region with sky-high property values, the…
11/15/2022
The Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago exemplifies the perennially complicated notion of “gentrification.” The ebb and flow of the area’s…
10/03/2022
The AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust (HIT) is pleased to announce its $18.2 million investment in Ladder 260, part of a…
09/19/2022
An $8 million New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC) allocation by Building America CDE, Inc. (Building America) has brought union participation…
07/18/2022
07/13/2022
How can we strengthen our city and region by better connecting housing to jobs and jobs to housing? That was…
06/17/2022
06/09/2022
Washington, DC — AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust’s subsidiary Building America CDE announced its investment in Destination Crenshaw has been nationally…
06/09/2022
Effective on June 9, 2022, Chang Suh, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer, and William K. Pierce, Senior Portfolio…
06/01/2022
The HIT’s Peregrine Apartments project located in Minnesota is profiled in the May 2022 edition of the Minneapolis Labor Review.
05/25/2022
Investment by HIT’s Subsidiary Building America CDE is profiled in Novogradac’s May 2022 Journal of Tax Credits.
05/06/2022
HIT’s Midwest@Work Initiative closes in on goal of $2 billion investment well ahead of schedule. Today the AFL-CIO Housing Investment…
04/29/2022
03/31/2022
03/29/2022
03/03/2022
01/05/2022
12/21/2021
AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust-financed union construction projects generate competitive returns, new jobs and affordable housing for local workers. The…
11/22/2021
10/28/2021
Washington, D.C.—October 28, 2021—The AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust (HIT) announced today it reached the milestone of investing $1.6 billion in…
10/08/2021
10/08/2021
09/04/2021
The U.S. Department of the Treasury Community Development Financial Institutions Fund awarded Building America CDE, Inc. (Building America) a $55…
08/31/2021
Social housing — public or nonprofit-managed housing that accommodates a mix of household income ranges — might be a new…
08/05/2021
The AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust (HIT) is saddened beyond measure by the loss of our dear friend and leader, Richard…
07/22/2021
Washington, D.C.—July 22, 2021—In its recently released 48th annual survey of the largest institutional money managers in 2020, Pensions &…
07/17/2021
The YWCA of Central Massachusetts is showing us their historic $24 million in renovations at their downtown Worcester Salem Square…
07/08/2021
The AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust (HIT), the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers (BAC), the AFL-CIO, and the labor…
07/08/2021
HIT CEO Chang Suh was quoted in the 2020 National Housing Conference’s 2020 annual report, “The Power of Collaboration.” The…
06/17/2021
On Wednesday, June 16, Barrett Lo Visionary Development will celebrate the start of The Couture construction with a ceremonial groundbreaking…
06/15/2021
WinnCompanies, an award-winning national multifamily development and management company, has filed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with the Boston Planning and Development…
06/14/2021
The AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust (HIT) will invest $43.5 million toward the development of new workforce rental housing at Gateway…
05/18/2021
The union movement has lost a good friend and staunch advocate with the passing of Rod DuChemin on May 14,…
03/02/2021
Washington, DC –The AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust (HIT) announced that Chris Coleman presided at his first meeting as new Chair…
02/23/2021
Gantry, the largest independent commercial mortgage banking firm in the U.S., has secured an $80,000,000 construction loan on behalf of…
02/05/2021
Presidio Bay Ventures has received on $120 million in construction financing for the development of Ventana Residences, an apartment community…
02/04/2021
The AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust is greatly saddened by the passing of our long-time colleague and trusted adviser, Board of…
12/15/2020
San Francisco, CA — The AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust (HIT) today announced the first project under its $1 billion Bay…
10/30/2020
On Tuesday October 6th, 2020, HIT CEO and Co-Chief Portfolio Manager Chang Suh, Co-Chief Portfolio Manager Mike Cook and Managing…
10/28/2020
Despite the challenges of the COVID pandemic, the AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust (HIT) is putting its investors’ funds to work…
10/21/2020
MassHousing has closed on a total of $78.8 million in financing to Beacon Communities LLC, to complete the third phase of…
09/03/2020
The AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust (HIT) announced a $1 billion investment initiative intended to create jobs and rental housing for…
06/25/2020
The NHP Foundation (NHPF) is pleased to announce that its affordable SRO property in Chicago, The Mark Twain, has achieved…
12/24/2019
Construction is kicking off at the Brodsky Organization’s Pacific Park rental building thanks to a big construction loan.
12/18/2019
The site of a long-shuttered Ford dealership on Cummins Highway in Mattapan will soon be filled by apartments and townhomes.
09/26/2019
MassHousing has closed on $66.1 million in affordable housing financing to affiliates of Beacon Communities LLC, to advance…
09/11/2019
Breaking Ground, a New York-based supportive housing developer, has broken ground on Betances Residence, a 152-unit affordable community for…
08/23/2019
The construction site for Elevate at Southwest Station, a mixed-use housing and retail project scheduled to open in early September…
08/20/2019
Lupe Development Partners is set to break ground on the first phase of its affordable housing project in the Lyn-Lake…
08/16/2019
Located in the Longwood Medical Area, 95 Saint Alphonsus St. will add 115 apartment homes, 15 of which have been…
07/19/2019
Building and Construction Trades Council of the Metropolitan District…