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Impact Investor Launches Affordable Housing Investment Vehicle

Impact Investor Unveils $200 Million Vehicle to Close America’s Affordable-Housing Gap

Denver, November 25, 2025 Colorado-based impact-investment firm BlueSky Community Capital today launched the BlueSky Workforce Housing Fund (BWHF), a $200 million private-equity vehicle created to acquire, preserve, and upgrade aging Class-B multifamily properties across five high-growth metros. The fund enters a market starved for moderately priced rentals: the National Low Income Housing Coalition estimates the United States is short 7.3 million affordable homes for households earning ≤80 % of area median income, a deficit that has widened 26 % since 2019.

“Capital is finally moving at the speed of the crisis,” said BlueSky CEO Maya Delgado. “By pairing concessionary capital from family offices with pension money that demands competitive risk-adjusted returns, we can deliver 8–10 % net IRR while keeping rents within reach of teachers, health aides, and logistics workers.”

The vehicle’s launch coincides with fresh evidence that impact-driven buyers can expand supply faster than ground-up construction. A July 2024 analysis of the $135 million CS Large Cities Housing Fund—an acquisition-oriented pool managed by Community Solutions and BDP Impact Real Estate—found it placed 1,155 existing units under affordability covenants in only 24 months, a timeline one-third shorter than new-build LIHTC projects of comparable size. Roughly half of those homes were reserved for households exiting homelessness, validating the “acquire-and-preserve” model as a cost-effective complement to new construction.

BWHF will deploy up to $40 million in equity per market—Austin, Nashville, Tampa, Phoenix, and Charlotte—targeting 1980-to-2000 vintage garden-style assets priced below replacement cost. Rent growth in these metros has cooled from pandemic peaks but still outpaces wage gains for essential workers; CBRE’s Q3 2025 outlook shows average Class-B asking rents up 5.8 % year-over-year while median hourly earnings rose 3.4 %. By locking in affordability covenants pegged at 30 % of income for households earning 60–120 % AMI, the fund aims to keep 3,500 units permanently below market without layering Low-Income Housing Tax Credits, thereby avoiding the regulatory delays that typically stretch delivery timelines to 42 months.

“Every month of delay adds $1,200 per unit in hard-cost escalation,” Delgado noted. “Our model closes in 90 days, then invests $7,500 per door in energy-efficiency retrofits that cut tenant utility burdens 18 % and shave operating expenses 11 %. It’s a measurable ESG win that also boosts NOI.”

Capitalization stacks 30 % senior debt from mission-aligned CDFIs, 45 % institutional equity seeking Article 8 classification under EU SFDR, and 25 % concessional notes from a U.S. West-Coast health system that views stable housing as a social determinant reducing emergency-room utilization. Independent evaluation firm CDFI Fund Advisors will verify social metrics quarterly; success fees are triggered only when occupancy among target-income tenants remains ≥95 % for four consecutive years.

About BlueSky Community Capital

BlueSky Community Capital is a SEC-registered investment adviser with $1.1 billion in assets under management focused on attainable housing, renewable energy, and small-business lending in underserved U.S. markets. Since 2017 the firm has financed or acquired 9,200 affordable units with zero conversion to market-rate tenure.