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Affordable Housing in the 2025 Colorado Legislative Session
By Katie McKenna, Housing Development Manager Against the backdrop of a shifting federal landscape, and the need to manage a close to $1.2B state budget shortfall, state legislative leaders took a more subtle approach to affordable housing policy during this year’s...
Can Denver Afford to Say No to Affordable Housing?
By Katie McKenna, Housing Development Manager With all eyes on the top of the ticket this election, it would be easy to forget about the dozens of local and statewide ballot initiatives covering the front and back of your multipage ballot. You may have wondered if...
How the 2024 Legislative Session Impacts Affordable Housing in Colorado
By Katie McKenna, Housing Development Manager The last few weeks of the legislative session can feel like an all-out sprint, with legislators working hard to push policies through to the finish line. Housing policy quickly took the lead as a top priority for the Polis...
A Sustainable Approach to Affordable Housing
By Dominic Corradino, Sustainability Program Analyst The word ‘sustainability’ has taken on many meanings over the last decade as the world has come to terms with the consequences of climate change. While our understanding of what it is to be sustainable hasn’t...
Quarterly Thought Leadership from our CEO – May 2023
By Sebastian Corradino, Chief Executive Officer Sebastian brings more than 25 years of experience to the affordable housing sector, serving in both the public and private sectors. He is a leader with a strong background in building businesses and investment portfolios...
Celebrating the Dedication & Perseverance of Moms
By Yvette Wooley, Manager of Property Management Systems Motherhood is a challenging journey that requires immense devotion, affection, and perseverance. I admire the many mothers in my life and reflect on the relationships I have formed with the mothers in Archway’s...
Colorado Led the Nation in Fair Housing in 1959
By Katie McKenna, Housing Development Manager Ruth Denny and Eugene Briscoe moved to Denver from St. Lewis in 1951. Initially, the couple rented rooms in a redlined neighborhood, but Mr. Briscoe’s salary at the Federal Finance Center combined with Mrs. Denny’s...
Mosaic’s History is Women’s History
By Sarah Blanchard, Director of Real Estate As many of you may know, Archway is currently renovating four historic dormitories on the former Johnson & Wales University Campus (recently named the Mosaic Community Campus) into 154 affordable apartments for families...
Affordable Housing: An Important Part of Justice
By Beth Harris-Robinson, General Counsel As I write this, it is the beginning of Black History Month, a month that exists to celebrate the contributions and humanity of Black Americans. It is a good time to point out that affordable housing is important to help right...
Quarterly Thought Leadership from our CEO – Feb 2023
By Sebastian Corradino, Chief Executive Officer Sebastian brings years of experience and roles associated with affordable housing and tax credits. Prior to joining Archway, he served as President of Riverside Capital, an affordable housing tax credit investment firm....
Supportive Services: Critical Time Intervention
By Mack Nock, Critical Time Intervention Coordinator Picture this: You’re newly experiencing homelessness. It’s winter and the temperatures are forecasted to be in the negatives for the next few nights. You found a blanket, but other than that it’s the clothes on your...
Philanthropy: Supporting Essential Work
By Georgeanne Barrett, Director of Communications and Philanthropy As another year comes to an end, it isn’t uncommon to reflect on how grateful we are for everything that has transpired over the past year. This means different things for different people, but I know...
Property Management: Attitude of Gratitude
By Desiree Parrott-Alcorn, Property Manager "This is a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before." Maya Angelou As I sit down to write this, we’re in the middle of a heated election season, and negativity abounds. In what I call today’s “me-centric” society, it...
Supportive Services: Health & Wellness
By Sandy Nagler, Director of Programs At Archway Communities, we’re learning alongside our residents about how to best support each of our communities’ distinct needs and insights into building better health and wellness. We’ve started with the basics, like no-cost...
Supportive Services: Immigrants & Refugees
By Maggie Howard, Supportive Services Manager You arrive in the airport and the language is strange and fast, and everything is new. You may only own what you have in your bag, and perhaps have some savings. You go through immigration and begin to adapt to the reality...
Finance: Amplifying Affordable Housing Investment
By George Kelly, Chief Finance Officer Plenty of apartment complexes have a community garden or a gym, but how many have an immigration attorney on staff? Or a health clinic onsite that serves both tenants and the surrounding community? That’s one vision for...
A Message from the Chief Executive Officer – July 2022
A Message from the Chief Executive Officer - July 2022 In business, as in our personal lives, managing boundaries is critical to success. What are we willing to accept in relationships, business partnerships, and in obligations? It should be a simple thing: if...
A Message from the Chief Executive Officer – June 2022
A Message from the Chief Executive Officer Over the course of my career, I have found myself frustrated by the endless changes that occurred within the organizations in which I was working. Whether it was within my role as a Legislative Assistant for a U.S....
Philanthropy: Funding Supportive Services
By Georgeanne Barrett, Director of Communications and Philanthropy One of the best things about Archway is that we don’t shy away from the loftiest of goals. When our President and CEO announced that the theme for 2022 would be Bigger, Stronger, Better, not one person...
A Message from the Chief Executive Officer – May 2022
A Message from the Chief Executive Officer - May 2022 Like so many things in life, organizational development is not linear. Some days there are breakthroughs and progress we can all see. Other days, there is progress that is less visible. And still other days,...
A Message from the Chief Executive Officer – March 2022
A Message from the Chief Executive Officer Just as it’s unusual for a baby to be brought home from the hospital without a name, it’s equally uncommon for a real estate project to close financing and begin construction while remaining nameless. And yet, that is...
A Message from the Chief Executive Officer – February 2022
A Message from the Chief Executive Officer Friends: “If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.” So says retired Retired Navy Admiral William McRaven, whose accomplishments are too many to fit in this newsletter. He even wrote a book called...
A Message from Our Chief Executive Officer – January 2022
A Message from Our Chief Executive Officer Friends, I have always resisted New Year’s resolutions (and diets for that matter) because I have found them to be unsustainable. Or perhaps because, as Oscar Wilde famously put it, “I can resist everything except...
A Message from Our Chief Executive Officer – December 2021
A Message from Our Chief Executive Officer Friends, Welcome to our final newsletter of what has been a most interesting year! Notwithstanding the challenges we have faced over the past months, at Archway we have worked to keep ourselves looking ahead to...
Message from the Chief Executive Officer – November 2021
A Message from the Chief Executive Officer Last month I wrote about the affordable housing crisis in Colorado where we face a growing deficit of housing units of all types, the impact of which falls most heavily on lower income families. Like so many of...
Message from the Chief Executive Officer – October 2021
Message from the Chief Executive Officer - October 2021 Colorado is in an affordable housing crisis. A recent study concluded that we have a statewide housing deficit of approximately 175,000 units. Over the next 5 years, we will need over 54,000 units of new...
A Message from Our Chief Executive Officer – September 2021
A Message from Our Chief Executive Officer - September 2021 As youngsters, most of us view the built environment almost as the natural world. The places we spend our time – home, school, parks, roads, shops – are just sort of “there”. Generally, we don’t think...
There Is No Easy Fix For The Affordable Housing Crisis
There Is No Easy Fix For The Affordable Housing Crisis Sebastian Corradino, Chief Executive Officer, Archway Communities Click here to see the original version on Forbes' website. Although housing is a basic human need, affordable housing is increasingly...
A Message from the Chairman of Our Board – August 2021
A Message from the Chairman of Our Board - August 2021 What is it like to be an Archway Board Member? Sheri Replane, Archway’s very creative Director of Communications, has invited me to share some thoughts for this month’s Newsletter. It’s a golden opportunity...
Message from the Executive Director- July 2021
Message from the Executive Director- July 2021 What does it mean to be a non-profit? When describing Archway Communities, I often find myself starting with the words: “We are a non-profit organization that provides affordable housing and related services in...
Message from the Executive Director – June 2021
Greetings! We’ve been busy at Archway in the last month!! Since our May newsletter went out, we’ve hosted 7 Vaccine Clinics, resulting in 63 vaccinations. We’ve also run 51 food banks for our communities, feeding more than 600 residents. As always, I am incredibly...
Message From Our Executive Director – May
Archway Communities elevates lives by providing access to affordable housing, food security and the supportive social services people need to thrive. It’s my pleasure to share with you our new name, Archway Communities, new logo and updated Mission...
Message from Our Executive Director – April
In 1994, our founders and still current board members, Robb Lapp and David Nestor, founded what is now Archway Housing. As active members of the United Church of Christ (the UCC), Robb and David embody the UCC’s commitment to active ministry focused on social and...
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