IHO News February 2024
IHO Welcomes a Strong 2024! This year has already started with a bang! Our Santa Ana project, The Living EmPower House, was listed in Decentralized Grid Magazine as number one on the 10 Intriguing Distributed Energy Projects to Watch in 2024 by energychangemakers.com. In the summer months, IHO will open three new housing communities in […]
GlobeSt.com: The Benefits and Challenges of Affordable Housing as an Investment Case
Our occupancy rates are 98% and higher and we have waiting lists up to 10 years. Two issues causing major challenges in other segments of multifamily — market volatility and over-supply — are not impacting affordable housing in the same way.
Innovative Homeownership and Cooperative Housing Strategies Enabled by Major Grant Pilot
Innovative Housing Opportunities, Inc. (IHO), has received a $250,000 grant from First Citizens Bank Affordable Housing Grant Program. The funds are earmarked for IHO’s pilot Homeownership Education and Housing Accelerator Initiative for low- to moderate-income (LMI) residents.
Rochelle Mills: Art is a Necessity, Not a Luxury
(PDF) As the president and CEO of Innovative Housing Opportunities (IHO), a developer of affordable and permanent-subsidized housing, I’m passionate about the beneficial role that art can play in uplifting the communities in multifamily housing developments, especially seniors housing.
Case Study: The Aspire in Riverside, CA
Affordable housing developer Innovative Housing Opportunities (IHO) celebrated the groundbreaking for The Aspire in April 2023.
GlobeSt.com: Women of Influence 2022
Rochelle Mills is president and CEO of Innovative Housing Opportunities, an Orange County-based, nonprofit developer of high-quality affordable housing.
Affordable Housing Finance: Pop Quiz With Rochelle Mills
The head of Innovative Housing Opportunities shares her path into affordable housing, her organization’s secret sauce, and what’s coming next.
Barrio Neighborhood Beautified with Garden-Community Affordable Housing
Affordable housing developer Innovative Housing Opportunities (IHO)—along with development partner C&C Development—breaks ground on Pacific Wind Apartments in Carlsbad, CA.
Spectrum News 1: For Architects, COVID-19 Is Creating Building Design Changes
Before the coronavirus pandemic, Innovative Housing Opportunities’ Golden Circle project was going to be a standard dense, high-quality mixed-use office, retail, and affordable housing development in Santa Ana.
BISNOW OC Power Women: 5 Questions with Innovative Housing Opportunities President and CEO Rochelle Mills
You can say Rochelle Mills is a jill-of-all-trades. Before becoming the CEO of Innovative Housing, Mills worked as an architect, a project manager, a planning commissioner and more.