The National Affordable Housing Management Association (NAHMA) congratulates the winners of its annual Affordable Housing Vanguard Awards. The awards recognize newly developed or significantly rehabbed affordable multifamily housing communities that showcase high-quality design and resourceful financing.
“The excellence exhibited throughout these multifamily developments dispels the notion that affordable housing cannot be an asset to their communities. Vanguard Award winners deliver powerful proof that affordable housing done well can transform neighborhoods and the lives of individual residents,” NAHMA CEO Kris Cook, CAE, said.
The Affordable Housing Vanguard Awards winners will be recognized at an awards ceremony at the NAHMA Biannual Top Issues in Affordable Housing 2024 Fall Conference in October in Washington, D.C.
The 2024 winners are:
Vanguard Award for New Construction
*Small Property (less than 100 units)
Gordon H. Mansfield Veterans Community, Tinton Falls, N.J.; Management Company: WinnResidential; Owner: WinnCompanies, Boston, Mass., and Soldier On Inc., Pittsfield, Mass.
*Large Property (more than 100 units)
201 Canal, Lowell, Mass.; Management Company: WinnResidential; Owner: WinnCompanies, Boston, Mass.
Vanguard Award for Major Rehabilitation of an Existing Rental Housing Community (tie)
Clawson Manor Co-op, Clawson, Mich.; Management Company: CSI Support & Development Services Inc.; Owner: Clawson Manor Apartments Limited Dividend Housing Assoc. LP, Warren, Mich.
The Charlestown, Boston, Mass.; Management Company: Peabody Properties Inc.; Owner: Affordable Housing & Services Collaborative, Braintree, Mass.
Vanguard Award for Major Rehabilitation of a Nonhousing Structure
Mill Street Square, Paterson, N.J.; Management Company: WinnResidential; Owner: WinnCompanies, Boston, Mass., and ART-JIUS Enterprises LLC, Paterson, N.J.
Vanguard Award for Major Rehabilitation of a Historic Structure into Affordable RentalHousing
Southbridge Mills, Southbridge, Mass.; Management Company: WinnResidential; Owner: WinnCompanies, Boston, Mass.
For details on the NAHMA Vanguard Award winners, visit https://www.nahma.org/awards-contests/vanguard-awards/.
The Vanguard Awards demonstrate that exceptional new affordable housing is available across the country; confirm that the affordable multifamily industry is and must be creative and innovative if such exceptional properties are to be built given the financial and other challenges to development; highlight results of the private/public partnerships required to develop today’s affordable housing; and share ideas for unique design and financing mechanisms with industry practitioners to further stimulate creative development in the affordable multifamily industry.
The judges of this year’s Vanguard Awards were distinguished NAHMA members from across the country: Michael Johnson, past president of NAHMA; Cindy Lamb, chief financial officer of CSI Support & Development; Noel Gill, president of Northwest Real Estate Capital Corp.; James McGrath, chairman emeritus of PRD Management Inc.; and Timothy Zaleski, past president of NAHMA. Lamb recused herself from judging the Major Rehabilitation of an Existing Rental Housing Community category.
NAHMA is the leading voice for the affordable housing management industry, promoting developing, managing and preserving quality affordable multifamily housing. NAHMA advocates for legislative and regulatory policy and provides affordable housing professionals with the knowledge to advance excellence in the communities they serve. NAHMA’s membership represents 75% of the affordable housing industry and includes its most distinguished multifamily owners and management companies. Visit www.nahma.org for more information.