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Charlotte Affordable Housing Conference

Financing, Developing and Preserving Communities and steps being taken to solve for the "missing middle."

Event Ended On: Wednesday October 15 2025

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Speakers and Panels

Delivering Affordable Housing: Development, Financing & Municipal Collaboration

Curtailing cost, creative financing and public-private partnerships

Fulton Meachem Jr.

Fulton Meachem Jr.

President & CEO, Inlivian
AJ Casavant

AJ Casavant

Managing Principal, The Federation Companies
Michael Englehart

Michael Englehart

Housing Trust Fund Manager, City of Charlotte
Rick Cunningham
Moderator

Rick Cunningham

Senior Public Relations and Development Manager, LDG Development

Solving for the Missing Middle

Complimenting subsidized housing through the development and preservation of workforce and mixed-income communities

Jordan Jones

Jordan Jones

Principal - Carolinas, The Integral Group
Lee Cochran

Lee Cochran

SVP, Development, Laurel Street Residential
Micah Kordsmeier

Micah Kordsmeier

Senior Director - Southeast Region, Urban Atlantic

Why You Should Attend the Charlotte Affordable Housing Conference

What You'll Learn: 

  • Where does the greatest housing affordability concern exist in the Charlotte region and how is this concern being addressed?
  • How are developers curtailing project cost and timelines for projects today?
  • What creative financing mechanisms is the private development community employing to ensure new supply pencils?
  • How are municipal stakeholders collaborating with the private sector to clear regulatory and financing roadblocks?
  • What challenges exist for those aiming to finance and execute workforce and mixed-income housing deals today?
  • What strategies or policies are being implemented to maintain Affordable, workforce, and mixed-income housing options around the Queen City?
  • What prevailing strategies are proving effective in aligning unit composition for mixed-income housing communities?

 

How You'll Do More Business: 

Enhance your business and network by hearing from Charlotte's top affordable housing developers, city officials, affordable housing advocates and lenders. Learn more on the latest strategies in project financing, preservation, and best practices in securing a piece of available funding options. Hear how the intended impact of the updated Unified Development Ordinance aligns with market impact to date, and what additional change the policy landscape may bring in the near future. 

 

Who Attends: Developers, investors, managers, city officials, housing advocates and organizations, lenders, banks, brokers, lawyers, and more. 

 

Why Should You Attend:

Bisnow events bring together the biggest power players in the industry to identify opportunities, build your network, and expand your business. With the largest audience of commercial real estate professionals in the world, no one knows how to help your business more than us.

 

For questions, recommendations, comments, or press inquiries please email our Director of Southeast Events, Brandon Elsasser at brandon.elsasser@bisnow.com

To request disability-related accommodations, please contact sabrina.cole@bisnow.com  no later than seven business days prior to the event.

Venue

The Union at West Station
919 Berryhill Rd, Suite 105
Charlotte, NC 28208

 

Parking Information:

Valet Lane will be set up along BerryHill Rd. Valet will take your vehicle to a remote or back lot. No parking is permitted in the front lot during the event. Additional parking lot is located at 1115 Berryhill Rd which is specifically reserved for this event. Please click HERE for more information.

 
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Agenda

Time Activity
8:00 AM
9:15 AM
Pre-Event Networking, Registration & Breakfast
9:15 AM
10:00 AM
Delivering Affordable Housing: Development, Financing & Municipal Collaboration
-Curtailing cost, creative financing and public-private partnerships
10:00 AM
10:30 AM
Networking Break
10:30 AM
11:15 AM
Solving for the Missing Middle
-Complimenting subsidized housing through the development and preservation of workforce and mixed-income communities
11:15 AM
11:30 AM
Closing Networking

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