Five trends that will affect affordable housing in second half 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic, and the efforts to contain the virus, introduced mass unemployment and economic uncertainty. Such a situation has particular significance for the affordable housing sector.

In “Second-half trends,” a market perspective in the July/August 2020 issue of Institutional Real Estate Americas, John Williams, president and CIO of Avanath Capital Management, reviews the situation for the affordable housing sector and makes predictions for the second half of the year.

“For a year that began so optimistically, 2020 has certainly thrown some curveballs,” writes Williams. “Naturally, nobody expected the COVID-19 pandemic and shutdown to hit, or that a booming economy would be brought to a startling halt. In the face of this crisis, many investors are wondering how the affordable-housing industry will fare and what the sector will look l