Sendero Verde was awarded the 2025 Terwilliger Center Award for Innovation in Attainable Housing. As one of the largest affordable residential Passive House projects in the world, Sendero Verde is a transformative mixed-use development in East Harlem that provides 709 affordable apartments for households ranging from formerly homeless to middle-income families.

The Aster was awarded the 2025 Terwilliger Center Award for Innovation in Attainable Housing. The Aster transformed a long-blighted site in downtown Salt Lake City into 190 apartments units with a full range of affordability from 20% AMI to market-rate, plus 20,000 square feet of retail and commercial space. The development includes two new new eight- and 12-story towers linked by a public paseo to the historic 1890 Cramer House.

The Kelsey Ayer Station was awarded the 2025 Terwilliger Center Award for Innovation in Attainable Housing. The Kelsey Ayer Station is a six-story, transit-oriented, inclusive housing community providing 115 homes affordable to households earning between 20 percent and 80 percent of area median income (AMI). The project builds affordable, accessible, inclusive housing, with twenty-five percent of the units reserved for people with disabilities and an Inclusion Concierge program to connect resident to services, supports, and community.

The Wilder was awarded the 2025 Jack Kemp Excellence in Affordable and Workforce Housing Award. The first completed project under Nashville’s PILOT program, The Wilder converted a deteriorating motel into 97 studio apartments for households earning between 60 and 100% of the area median income, all without public subsidy.

Market Street Village was awarded the 2025 Jack Kemp Excellence in Affordable and Workforce Housing Award. Acquired through a creative funding mechanism designed to preserve affordability in high-cost markets like San Diego, Market Street Village provides 229 affordable units, half of which are reserved for veterans exiting homelessness, with the other half preserved as workforce housing with rents set at 80% AMI.

The Laureate was awarded the 2024 Jack Kemp Award for Excellence in Affordable and Workforce Housing. The Laureate is a mixed-income, mixed-use residential development that provides 268 units of workforce and market-rate apartment units. Located one-block from a DC-area Metro station, this project represents the first use of Montgomery County’s innovative Housing Production Fund (HPF), a $100 million revolving fund aimed at accelerating the creation of affordable housing in high-opportunity areas.

Chattanooga Missing Middle Housing was awarded the 2024 Jack Kemp Excellence in Affordable and Workforce Housing Award. The Chattanooga Missing Middle Housing project, led by Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise Inc. (CNE), transformed 50 vacant, scattered parcels into 181 units of missing middle housing. Designed to bridge the gap between single-family homes and large apartment buildings, the project aimed to preserve neighborhood character while increasing density.

425 Grand Concourse was awarded the 2024 Terwilliger Center Award for Innovation in Attainable Housing. 425 Grand Concourse is a 26-story, 310,000-squarefoot Passive House–certified development located in the Bronx, New York, that provides 277 affordable and mixed-income housing units, a supermarket, a 29,000-square-foot CUNY educational facility, a community health center, and a cultural space.

PAH! Hiland Plaza was awarded the 2024 Terwilliger Center Award for Innovation in Attainable Housing. PAH! Hiland Plaza (PAH) provides 92 affordable apartment units specifically designed to meet the needs of the Deaf, DeafBlind, and Hard-of-Hearing households. PAH is the largest housing development in the nation serving the Deaf community and the only one designed to accommodate households with children.

Caton Flats won the Terwilliger Center’s 2023 Jack Kemp Excellence in Affordable and Workforce Housing Award. The new construction redeveloped a Caribbean vendors’ market and surface parking lot into the expanded Flatbush Central Caribbean Marketplace and 255 units of affordable and workforce housing.

Broadway Lofts won the Terwilliger Center’s 2023 Jack Kemp Excellence in Affordable and Workforce Housing Award. Broadway Lofts is a mixed-use development that created 48 units of workforce housing with a local cooperative grocery on the ground floor. Located in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, Broadway Lofts is the city’s largest redevelopment in 40 years, marking an important economic investment in the community.

This case study showcases an innovative partnership between True Ground Housing Partners (formerly the Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing (APAH)) and the American Legion Post 139, which resulted in a new 160-unit affordable housing project with a veteran preference built on the site of the aging post facilities. This case study provides important lessons for affordable housing development, including the impact of partnerships with land-rich nonprofits and the importance of flexible zoning and continued subsidies for deeply affordable housing.