Workforce Housing: Is it Really Working? With Riaz Taplin

Folks,
Join us as Riaz Taplin, one of the Bay area’s leading champions for the development of workforce housing shares insight and solutions to how workforce housing can transform our communities and change our cities. Find out what’s working, what’s not, and what the future holds.

About Riaz Taplin
Riaz Taplin is a second-generation real estate entrepreneur, developer, and asset manager who has worked in the industry his entire life. Coming from an established real estate family, Riaz detoured his career to found a design/build firm that plays by a new set of rules. He founded the firm by developing over 50 ultra-luxury residences in the Bay Area. Upon completion of his final ultra-luxury project, Riaz was able to re-focus his vision on creating workforce housing for Oakland’s underserved middle-market, an oft-neglected demographic. As principal and founder of Riaz Capital, Taplin oversees the vertically integrated workforce housing developer with a team of over sixty professionals and over 1,500 residences. Taplin is a board member of the Oakland Promise, urban planning think tank SPUR, and co-chair of the American India Foundation SF Bay Area board.  He earned a B.A. in Economic History from the London School of Economics.

About Riaz Capital
Riaz Capital is an Oakland, CA-based real estate firm whose goal is to profitably develop housing that anyone earning area median income can proudly call home. In identifying an unmet need for middle-income households, Riaz Capital produces affordable-by-design residences for the people of Oakland. Our principals have been successfully operating in the Bay Area since 1977 and in the East Bay multifamily market since 1999. With demonstrated success in mid-market, multi-family repositioning, Riaz Capital owns and operates ~1,500 units with building sizes ranging from 6 - 127 units. At the development level, Riaz Capital employs 16 people that oversee a company-wide staff of 60 professionals. The company is currently in the process of raising capital for its third Opportunity Zone fund, which will be dedicated to housing solutions.

When and Where
Feb 16, 2022 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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