Austin, TX, UNITED STATES Americas
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This panel explored the ways in which the development community can think differently about financing deeply affordable housing. Moderated by Beth Silverman (The Lotus Campaign), the panelists Claudia Lima (SDS Capital Group), Rosanne Haggerty, (Community Solutions), and Sally Gaskin (SGI Ventures) shared how their firms have gone about building public and private relationships to acquire right-fit financing, understand their client needs, build to suit those needs and the long-term needs of service providers helping clients in those developments, and help communities they build with identify the challenges and opportunities they face and how these developments can promote equitable growth across their communities.

Session Summary: This panel explored the ways in which the development community can think differently about financing deeply affordable housing. Moderated by Beth Silverman (The Lotus Campaign), the panelists Claudia Lima (SDS Capital Group), Rosanne Haggerty, (Community Solutions), and Sally Gaskin (SGI Ventures) shared how their firms have gone about building public and private relationships to acquire right-fit financing, understand their client needs, build to suit those needs and the long-term needs of service providers helping clients in those developments, and help communities they build with identify the challenges and opportunities they face and how these developments can promote equitable growth across their communities.

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