Wesley Living honored with Affordable Housing Vanguard Award

Wesley Living has been named the 2023 winner of the Vanguard Award for Major Rehabilitation of an Existing Rental Housing Community, by the National Affordable Housing Management Association (NAHMA). These 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 as well as the lives of individual residents.

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: Cindy Lamb, SHCM, NAHP-e, chief financial officer of CSI Support & Development; Noel Gill, NAHP-e, SHCM, CPO, executive vice president of Northwest Real Estate Capital Corp.; Jim McGrath, SHCM, NAHP-e, chairman of the board of PRD Management Inc.; Gianna Richards, SHCM, NAHP-e, president of Solari Enterprises Inc.; and Timothy Zaleski, SHCM, NAHP-e, past president of NAHMA.

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.