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Avanath Capital Management Investing in and operating affordable housing at scale. 🏘 A Lifestyle Within Reach. ️☀️ Managing communities nationwide through Brighthaven.

02/11/2026

Asset preservation at Avanath is not about reactively fixing what is broken. It is built into how we maintain, plan, and reinvest in every community we manage.

Here is what that looks like in practice:

Across our portfolio, semi-annual inspections, tight HVAC maintenance cycles, and routine “treasure hunts” for energy-loss opportunities help our teams catch issues early, before small problems become larger, costlier ones.

That same discipline shapes how we plan capital investment over time. We evaluate roof replacements, structural upgrades, and major system improvements early, favoring solutions built for decades of use over temporary fixes that create bigger problems down the road. Much of the capital we manage represents the retirement security of teachers, firefighters, and police officers, so planning years ahead is part of being a responsible steward of that trust.

We're also reinvesting directly in our communities to create a more valuable experience for our residents, with new amenity spaces and larger-scale rehabilitations underway across several properties.

And we continue to look for opportunities to leverage creative capital structures that both preserve affordability and build long-term value. One example of this is Baldwin Village in Los Angeles, where a public-private partnership helped support the acquisition of the asset, unit interior renovations, and upgrades to electrical infrastructure—all while maintaining affordability for 669 units.

Proactively caring for the assets we own today is how we protect our investments and preserve residents’ quality of life over the long term.

Housing stability is built well before the first of the month. Residents at Saxon Trace recently joined Regions Bank, on...
30/10/2026

Housing stability is built well before the first of the month.

Residents at Saxon Trace recently joined Regions Bank, one of our community resource partners, for a financial seminar. They learned why credit scores matter, practical ways to improve them, and what it takes to prepare to buy a home.

Programs like this are central to how Avanath runs its communities. Financial know-how gives residents more control over their budgets, more confidence when unexpected costs come up, and a clearer path toward long-term goals.

That stability reaches the whole community. Residents who feel financially prepared are more likely to stay in their homes. That supports steady rent collection, lower turnover and the predictable performance long-term investors value.

At Avanath, social impact and asset performance are aligned. Working with trusted local institutions like Regions Bank lets us bring useful resources directly to the communities we serve.

Thank you to the Regions Bank team and to every resident who joined us.

Housing is built on relationships with the civic, business and community leaders who shape the places our residents call...
29/10/2026

Housing is built on relationships with the civic, business and community leaders who shape the places our residents call home.

Last week, John R. Williams, President and Chief Operating Officer, and Troy S. Jenkins, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations, joined City Club LA for its 4th Annual Founders’ Day Luncheon.

We were honored to have California’s 37th Governor, Gray Davis, as our guest and to share the day with Maria Salinas, President and CEO of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, and Charlene Dimas-Peinado, President and CEO of WellNest .

Thank you to City Club Los Angeles for hosting a luncheon celebrating the community of Los Angeles.

We’re honored to be named among our industry’s best of the best as a GlobeSt.com 2026 Influencer in Multifamily Real Est...
28/10/2026

We’re honored to be named among our industry’s best of the best as a GlobeSt.com 2026 Influencer in Multifamily Real Estate🏆

Since 2008, Avanath has proven that affordable and workforce housing can perform for investors and still feel like home for residents, now managing $4B+ in assets across 97 communities nationwide.

That commitment scaled further this past year with the launch of Brighthaven Communities, co-founded with BRIDGE Housing.

Brighthaven now manages 30,000+ homes across 16 states, placing it among the nation’s top 10 affordable and workforce housing managers—in an industry where there is significant opportunity to scale.

This recognition reflects the work of every Avanath team member: proof that institutional discipline and genuine care for residents can, and should, go hand in hand.

Read the full profile: https://www.globest.com/2026/10/06/influencers-in-multifamily-2026/

One month, three cities. In September, Avanath leaders met with policymakers in Washington, toured our communities in Ch...
27/10/2026

One month, three cities. In September, Avanath leaders met with policymakers in Washington, toured our communities in Chicago and celebrated partners in Long Beach.

Policy | Washington, D.C., Sept. 16–18
During the NMHC Fall Board of Directors Meeting, John R. Williams, President and Chief Operating Officer, and Keith Harris, President, Avanath Investment & Development, visited Capitol Hill. Our team also met with HUD Secretary Scott Turner and the HUD team.

Operations | Chicago, Sept. 24
John and a few other team members toured three of our Chicago communities: Scotland Yard, Lincoln Park Plaza and Affinity at North Avenue.

Community | Long Beach and beyond
On Sept. 10, Parris Jones, Vice President, Operations, Southwest, received the Champion Award from the Long Beach Unity Festival, and Troy S. Jenkins, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations, was there to celebrate with him. Later in the month, we joined BRIDGE Housing for its 25th Annual Scholarship Luncheon. Since 2001, BRIDGE has awarded $4.6M+ in scholarships to 510+ residents.

Different rooms, one goal: housing that works for the people who live there and the investors who make it possible.

See you in Newport Beach!  Avanath’s Saul McDonald, SVP, Head of Capital Markets, is speaking at the 2026 MFE Magazine C...
26/10/2026

See you in Newport Beach!

Avanath’s Saul McDonald, SVP, Head of Capital Markets, is speaking at the 2026 MFE Magazine Conference, just down the coast from our Irvine headquarters.

Don’t miss his panel, “Where Market-Rate Meets Affordable: Strategy in a Mixed-Income Market,” Wednesday, November 4th from 1:00 to 1:30 PM.

Saul and his fellow panelists will unpack how affordable housing finance is reshaping market-rate deal structures and where public and private capital are meeting most effectively.

View the full agenda for the conference here: https://www.mfeconference.com/mfeconferencecom/agenda-2026

Avanath is heading to Miami Beach for the Urban Land Institute 2026 Fall Meeting, October 26-28.This year's agenda puts ...
26/10/2026

Avanath is heading to Miami Beach for the Urban Land Institute 2026 Fall Meeting, October 26-28.

This year's agenda puts housing affordability and workforce housing at the center, alongside climate resilience, adaptive reuse, and inclusive community development.

For Avanath, these aren't conference topics. They are the work of preserving and operating communities where working families can afford to live, proving that impact and returns scale together.

Our team will be there to share what we're seeing and learn where capital and development are headed next:

Wes Wilson, Chief Investment Officer
John R. Williams, President & COO
Carly Stevenson, EVP of Property Management
Keith Harris, President, AVID
Lauri Heffron, VP, Ancillary Revenue
Casey Fleckenstein, Director of Business Development

Attending? Send any of them a message to connect.
Program details: https://uli.org/events/detail/D7FCC34D-7CD8-466B-9ED2-529C5FEF9496/

Our team is headed to   for PREA’s 36th Annual Institutional Investor Conference, taking place October 7–9.  We’re looki...
02/10/2026

Our team is headed to for PREA’s 36th Annual Institutional Investor Conference, taking place October 7–9.

We’re looking forward to engaging with real estate investment professionals and industry leaders on the economic outlook, multifamily investment strategy, and where institutional capital is headed next.

Our John R. Williams, Dhara Patel, Troy S. Jenkins, Kaitlyn Mullin, and Noah Johnson will be representing Avanath at this year’s conference.

Let’s connect in DC!

This October, three Avanath leaders head to Munich, Germany, for EXPO REAL, Europe’s largest trade fair and conference f...
30/09/2026

This October, three Avanath leaders head to Munich, Germany, for EXPO REAL, Europe’s largest trade fair and conference for real estate, investment, and infrastructure professionals.

Daryl J. Carter, Founder, Chairman & CEO, John R. Williams, President and Chief Operating Officer, and Wes Wilson, Chief Investment Officer, will attend October 5-7. This year’s theme, , centers on the forces reshaping the industry: AI and smart buildings, decarbonization, selective capital allocation, and a newly expanded focus on infrastructure investment.

Those same forces play out differently in workforce and affordable housing, where the margin on operating costs, capital deployment, and long-term resilience already runs tighter than in most of the market. It’s part of why Avanath keeps showing up to conversations like this one.

More on this year’s program: https://exporeal.net/en/

If you’d like to connect with Daryl, John, or Wes before or during the event, click on their names above to send them a message on LinkedIn.

Two Avanath executives take the stage at AAREP LA's "Housing as Infrastructure: A Curated Conversation with CRE Leaders"...
29/09/2026

Two Avanath executives take the stage at AAREP LA's "Housing as Infrastructure: A Curated Conversation with CRE Leaders" in Los Angeles on October 1.

The program examines affordable housing as critical economic and community infrastructure, connecting capital, operational scale, public-private partnership, and talent to advance economic mobility and community stability.

Carly Stevenson, Executive Vice President, Property Management, and Saul McDonald, Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets, open the evening with a panel on capital, scale, and impact in affordable and workforce housing. They'll bring perspectives on acquisitions, capital raising, and operations, including the formation of Brighthaven Communities, and speak to how capital structures, real estate platforms, and public-private partnerships can support long-term affordability while creating value for communities and investors alike.

The evening brings together leaders from across the housing ecosystem, including Innovative Housing Opportunities, Brighthaven Communities, April Housing, and the Housing Authority of the County of San Bernardino, alongside Avanath.

Joining Carly and Saul from the Avanath team:
Troy Jenkins, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations
Kelly Walker, Vice President, Marketing and Community Engagement
Tori Stevenson, Intern, Business Development
Noah Johnson, Senior Analyst, Investor Relations

If you're attending, connect with the team in person or send them a message on LinkedIn.

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