Building Innovation
Advancing innovative ways to finance, build, operate, and preserve affordable housing.
As part of CPC’s longstanding commitment to innovation, our dedicated team of experts continually develops and advances new approaches to address the evolving challenges facing the housing sector.
Building Innovation is CPC’s platform for testing, financing, and scaling practical solutions that improve the delivery, quality, and performance of multifamily housing. Drawing on nearly two decades of innovation in sustainability and resilient housing, CPC has deployed nearly $2 billion in green lending since 2015, advancing building performance, reducing operating costs, and supporting the long-term affordability and stability of multifamily housing.
Since first launching our sustainability platform in 2008, CPC has advanced strategies and innovations that strengthen the physical and financial performance of multifamily buildings and the communities they support. By promoting energy efficiency and decarbonization measures, CPC helps property owners reduce operating costs, mitigate climate-related risks, and preserve the long-term affordability and stability of housing.
What We Do
Finance high-performance housing.
We raise and deploy capital through our High-Performance Housing Fund, Climate Friendly Homes Fund, and GRRP Predevelopment Facility to support projects that improve building performance, resilience, and operating outcomes.
Pilot practical innovations.
We identify, support, and test promising innovations emerging from across CPC and the broader market, including building systems, materials, technologies, financing approaches, and delivery strategies in real multifamily projects. Through the projects CPC finances and supports, we capture performance and risk data, evaluate results, and refine solutions for broader application.
Accelerate market adoption.
We leverage CPC’s experience as a market leader in housing finance and sustainability to translate lessons from our lending, investment, and partnership work into tools, insights, and practices that can scale across CPC and the broader housing ecosystem. By supporting and amplifying innovations developed within CPC and across the field, we help improve housing delivery, operations, resident outcomes, and affordability.
Our Impact
- Scale financing solutions for high-performance housing.
- Improve building quality, resilience, efficiency, and operating performance.
- Generate data and insights that inform underwriting, policy, and market practice.
- Accelerate adoption of solutions that make multifamily housing more affordable, sustainable, and easier to deliver.
- Reduce barriers to the development, rehabilitation, and preservation of affordable housing.
Resources
To add value to the market and support the adoption of increased environmental and economic sustainability, CPC offers a variety of publicly available resources for the multifamily ecosystem. Our trainings, convening events, research, and publications equip lenders, public partners, and building owners with information to help accelerate the transition to a clean energy economy. Our work has helped inform local and state policy, underwriting strategies, and financing opportunities for the multifamily sector.
The Climate Friendly Homes Fund: Cost and Energy Savings Across the Hudson Valley
Innovations in Building Performance: New Tools for Resilience Decision-Making
Climate Lending & Investing
CPC offers specialty financing to support high-performance new construction and retrofits of existing housing. Ready to start? Get in touch with one of our experts to begin a conversation about your project.
Sustainability
Since first launching our sustainability platform in 2008, CPC has advanced strategies and innovations that strengthen the physical and financial performance of multifamily buildings and the communities they support. By promoting energy efficiency and decarbonization measures, CPC helps property owners reduce operating costs, mitigate climate-related risks, and preserve the long-term affordability and stability of housing.