We Have Moved!

A Different Neighborhood. The Same Community.

Dear Subscribers,

The Affordable Housing Handbook has moved on from Substack and into to a new home! As we finish unpacking our boxes and explore our new neighborhood, I wanted to take a moment to explain why we did such a thing and how it will impact you.

So, How Will It Impact You?

These two things will remain the same.

1. All of our existing subscribers will continue to receive our newsletters delivered to their email inbox, and if you decide you don’t want that anymore you will still be able to opt out and read our stuff online.

2. We will still try to write interesting things that matter to you, and share insights from industry leaders and affordable housing leaders from across the United States.

These three things will change

• We are no longer restricting access to our archives to paid subscribers. Anyone who subscribes to the Affordable Housing Handbook will now have the ability to check out all of our old stuff.

• Our subscribers also now have access to the additional content in our Affordable Housing Resource Center. This includes a highly curated research library, best practices and case studies from impact-driven practitioners from across the country, and opportunities to join open conversations with industry leaders and peers from across the country.¹

• If you are a paid subscriber (or work for an organization that is a member of the Multifamily Impact Council (MIC) Community) you also now have full access to our growing collection of Impact Framework User Guides.

Why Are We Doing This?

At the risk of getting existential on you, I have to admit that there were several moments during the transition process when I asked myself the same question.

The reason, however, was pretty simple.

Over the course of the past year, the growth in our subscriber base greatly exceeded our expectations. As a result, we wanted to build a platform that allowed us to grow at scale and offer more content and services to more readers.

Making this move allows us to expand the amount of content that we can share with our subscribers and build a deeper, more usable resource center for practitioners, advocates, and investors who care about making rental housing more affordable and sustainable and are looking for a community of folks who share that same belief.

Our Commitment To You

Over the past 24 months, The Affordable Housing Handbook has grown from a simple weekly newsletter into a shared workspace for a broader community of people who are trying to make the rental housing system fairer, healthier, and more sustainable. None of this would have happened were it not for you, and I want you to know how much I appreciate that you took the time to hit the subscribe button.

It is very important to us that everything we send you has some value. As we expand our platform to provide more content, I want you to know that our commitment to quality over quantify will not change. If you have not already done so, please feel free to check out the Affordable Housing Handbook’s new home - here.

If you have any questions or just want to tell me what you think, shoot us a note at MIC@multifamilyimpactouncil.org and I will follow up with you.

Thanks again!

Bob

1. If you are prompted to login or subscribe to the new site - just use the same email address that you were already using and you should be good to go.