Solving the housing supply shortage — multifamily, BTR and other essential products

Spencer Kallick will speak on a panel exploring how investors, developers, and operators are tackling the shortage of attainable and workforce housing across multifamily, BTR, and other essential products. The discussion will address development feasibility, capital alignment, and product innovation, while highlighting the growing role of private capital and family offices in delivering scalable, financially sustainable housing solutions.

• How developers and family offices are underwriting ground-up risk amid higher costs—and where creative structuring is restoring feasibility
• The expanding role of private capital in workforce housing while maintaining strong risk-adjusted returns
• Which partnership structures best align developers, municipalities, and capital partners
• How entitlement, political, and regulatory challenges are shaping site selection and timelines
• The role of adaptive reuse, mixed-income, and smaller-format projects in expanding supply
• Where BTR and essential housing still offer opportunity—and where investors are pulling back
• How tech and AI are reducing costs, improving operations, and supporting long-term affordability
• Why workforce housing is emerging as a scalable, institutional-quality investment
• The need for cross-sector alignment to solve housing supply at scale