Preserving naturally occuring affordable housing with Dr. Canaan Van Williams

<p>Manufactured housing assets and mobile home communities, along with single-room occupancy motels, and multifamily properties, are key sources of Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing. On this episode, Proactive Realty Group’s <strong>Canaan Williams</strong> (<a href="https://impactalpha.com/proactive-realty-group-fixed-income-affordable-housing-fund/"><em>ImpactAlpha </em><u><em>Edge</em></u></a>) tells how he has acquired and renovated nearly two dozen distressed, condemned or nearly abandoned assets and rehabilitated them, including with energy upgrades, while preserving below-market rents. </p><p>Dr. Van, as he is known, knows housing from growing up in a working-class Bay Area family that relied on Section 8 subsidies. South Carolina-based Proactive’s fixed-income strategy promises monthly payments from the rental stream.</p>