Homes for Equity collaborators completed The Past is Not Past: Confronting the Legacy of Housing Discrimination in Roxbury, a two-part series on both ends of Fair Housing Month exploring homebuying discrimination.

Aching for A Home: Stories of Homebuying Discrimination in Roxbury, shared the stories gathered from the lived experiences of Roxbury residents and discussed how to make it right in the community.

We’re thrilled to welcome the inaugural cohort of the Fellowship for Equitable Affordable Housing Development (FEAHD). These Fellows will work at CDCs across Massachusetts for the next two years, benefitting from on-the-job training and mentorship that will prepare them for careers in real estate development.

Thank you CHAPA for the opportunity to share info about OppCo's Homes for Equity initiative at the Fair Housing Symposium. The presentation by Maria Latimore and Neenah Estrella-Luna starts at 16:50.

We are thrilled to share that Kathy McGilvray joined the team in March 2023, as OppCo’s new CEO.

Learn more about the innovative programs we’re developing to change the way community development work is done.

OppCo member, Nuestra Comunidad wins the EPA’s Phoenix Award for the redevelopment of Bartlett Station, one of ten awardees selected nationwide.

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OppCo is thrilled to announce that the North Shore CDC is our third organizational member. North Shore CDC is a trusted community-based partner headquartered in Salem. Under the leadership of Mickey Northcut and an amazing team, North Shore CDC is poised for growth. We at OppCo are excited to support them on their journey. Welcome, NSCDC!

OppCo’s founding CEO, Ann Houston, announces her plan to retire at the end of 2022.

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Real Estate, Resident Services, and Asset Management are three core disciplines central to the affordable housing work of community developers. OppCo allows our members to focus not just on these individual building blocks, but on how they are interconnected. The art lies in developing not only affordable homes, but the culture and vitality of our communities as people are the most essential building block of community, the source of a neighborhood’s character and strength.

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In this Shelterforce article, Miles Howard explores how despite the fact that the pandemic housing market differs from the Great Recession of 2008, the economic and housing destabilization impacts on owners, renters and communities could be eerily similar. TND’s Executive Director, Rafael Mares, was interviewed about how local CDCs are looking to build new tools to act in the rare instances when housing prices drop.

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Since OppCo was founded in 2018, you could say we’ve engaged in a process of building the plane while flying it. The pandemic made for some very turbulent skies, but it also proved the power of our model. We never expected to celebrate OppCo’s third birthday via Zoom in the midst of a global pandemic, but we are incredibly proud of the work we and our partners have completed to reach this milestone. The pandemic is not over, but our “test flight” is. Our plane is built, our model works, and we are ready to expand.

Shelterforce: The residents of OppCo-supported apartments have lower rates of COVID-19.

When it was launched in April of 2018, OppCo never expected to spend its third year in existence responding to a global pandemic. In its 2020 Annual Report OppCo reflects on how it built its plane while flying, and how its founding members- Nuestra Comunidad and The Neighborhood Developers- have expanded their affordable housing production outcomes by 300% while concurrently responding to the pandemic.

This award supports building wealth through homeownership for households harmed by housing discrimination.

WBUR: Artist Ricardo 'Deme5' Gomez Paints Bold Tribute To Black Lives In Roxbury

In June 2020, Ann Houston, OppCo CEO spoke with Boston Private about how OppCo navigated during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic and shut-down.