Reflections from the Arizona Department of Housing Conference and the 2025 State of Housing in Arizona report I recently had the opportunity to join a panel at the Arizona Department of Housing Conference focused on the findings of the Arizona Research Center for Housing Equity and Sustainability’s 2025 State of Housing in Arizona report. The report confirms what families, employers, developers and community organizations across our state already feel every day: Arizona’s housing challenge is...

EARLY BIRD TICKETS ON SALE NOW Join us September 10-11, 2026 Southern Arizona Development Finance Summit The Southern Arizona Development Finance Summit helps developers and nonprofits move projects from concept to closing by connecting them with the financing tools, development expertise, and capital partners needed to get projects built. ANNOUNCEMENT We are excited to announce our Keynote Speaker: Gene Kansas Gene Kansas is a nationally recognized developer, preservationist,...

Nicole Johnson at Tucson Industrial Development Authority was one of the inaugural winners cohort for the NextGen in Affordable Housing Finance at National Association of Local Housing Finance Agencies (NALHFA)! This national award is HUGE honor and so well deserved. While she did not have a background in Affordable Housing initially she has SOARED in this role - driven by her passion to make homeownership available to the community and leveraging all of her digital and marketing skills to...