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Affordable Housing Trends Report Spring 2024

As housing costs spiral, rental affordability has become a more urgent issue, burdening a greater number of Americans. Arbor’s Affordable Housing Trends Report Spring 2024, developed in partnership with Chandan Economics, examines the major policies and programs shaping the marketplace at a time when overdue federal funding expansions have increased agency budgets.

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What Is Driving Lifestyle Renter Demand?

Lifestyle renters — those who have the means to own but prefer to rent or are willing to pay more for apartments with amenities — have become a key driver of rental demand in single-family rental homes, build-to-rent communities, and other types of high-quality multifamily housing. With this small yet influential demographic growing, our research teams examine and explain the factors driving lifestyle renter demand.

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Build-to-Rent Well-Positioned to Fill Housing Market Gap

With nearly one-fifth of multifamily properties now over 65 years old, it’s time to consider solutions for rejuvenating the rental housing stock in the U.S. While building rehabs are a tried-and-true solution, build-to-rent (BTR) is an alternative that is well-positioned to expand as Americans increasingly favor renting over homeownership.

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U.S. Added 514,000 New Rental Households in 2023

In a year when inflation and elevated interest rates weakened affordability, the rental housing sector strengthened and expanded. An analysis of newly released U.S. Census Bureau Housing Vacancies and Homeownership data shows the number of rental households climbed in 2023.

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Linor Shohet

Senior Vice President, Associate General Counsel

Linor Shohet provides legal support for Arbor’s capital markets, M&A, joint ventures and other strategic corporate transactions. She also provides legal oversight of CLO transactions and acts as principal in-house counsel for our Treasury department, supporting bank financing arrangements, including secured and unsecured credit facilities, warehouse lines, letter of credit facilities and repurchase lines.

Ms. Shohet joined Arbor as an Associate General Counsel in 2015. Her responsibilities included legal representation of Arbor, both as a borrower and seller, in connection with its bank financing arrangements; performing full-scope due diligence and covenant reviews to ensure compliance with Arbor’s credit facilities; and providing legal support to Arbor’s securitization transactions. Prior to coming to Arbor, Ms. Shohet was an Associate at Blank Rome LLP.

Ms. Shohet holds a Juris Doctor from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and French from Washington University in St. Louis.

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