Training Series
ANHD’s training series is designed to ensure local community groups and individuals interested in building, preserving, managing, and supporting deeply and permanently affordable housing, and in promoting economic justice have the skills, resources, and networks needed to tackle complex community development, housing and economic justice issues.
ANHD’s Affordable Housing Institute offers single and multi-day training sessions on multi-family housing preservation, sustainable building practices, project financing, property management, long-term asset management, strategic opportunities, and more. Expert facilitators have included representatives from Infinite Horizons, CUNY Building Performance Lab and NYC Accelerator, Goldstein Hall, and STRADA Consultants LLC.
Additionally, ANHD staff and partners occasionally offer other timely training sessions on our issue areas, such as Organizing Tenant Associations, How to Prevent Burnout for Organizers, Making Meetings Memorable, CRA 101, and Small Business Merchant Organizing 101.
All of ANHD’s training sessions are low-cost or free, and open to all. We encourage you to browse our current, upcoming workshops below.
Affordable Housing Institute
Understanding LIHTC: Selection of Syndicator and Bank
04/30/2026 10:00 am
In this part of ANHD’s Affordable Housing Development training series, participants will learn about the essential legal aspects of partnering with a syndicator, the responsibilities of the parties, implications and pitfalls to avoid in selecting the right syndicator for your LIHTC project. ViewBack End of the Deal: Yr. 15 Credits and Refinancing
04/21/2026 10:00 am
This workshop will include a detailed discussion of the Right of First Refusal and Purchase Option, a conversation about capital accounts, and refinancing options. ViewJoint Ventures 201
04/16/2026 10:00 am
This interactive panel will provide further detail about negotiation strategies relative to a joint venture partnership. The presenters will discuss key negotiation terms, illustrative examples of common issues, and ways to negotiate to your organization’s advantage. ViewPutting the Deal Together (Joint Ventures 101)
04/14/2026 10:00 am
The second session focuses on the complexities of creating a development team, negotiating and structuring joint venture agreements with for-profit partners, and maximizing the organization’s value contribution to the deal. The training will also explore real estate deals, conditions for their profitability, and the various institutions and actors involved in the development process. ViewThe Basics of Affordable Housing
03/31/2026 10:00 am
The first session focuses on the basics of affordable housing. This training will cover the need-to-knows for conversations that will take place over several weeks, including Low Income Housing Tax Credit Syndication and critical steps in the affordable housing development process. ViewOther ANHD Offerings
CCL Advanced Power-Building Workshop Series – Demonstrating Power: Campaigns (apply by 4/13)
04/24/2026 10:00 am
This 2-Part module consists of two sessions focused on Campaigns as a way of demonstrating our power. Part 1 on 4/24 provides a foundation for understanding key elements of a campaign and covers: Defining campaigns and key campaign terms; Identifying targets; Developing demands; and Power mapping. Part 2 on 5/29 invites participants to workshop campaigns they are actively working on and offers opportunities to reflect on topics including campaign tactics and strategies. Participants are required to register for and attend both sessions. ViewCCL Advanced Power-Building Workshop Series – Sustaining Power: Leadership Development (apply by 3/16)
03/27/2026 10:00 am
Part 3 of our 5-Part Power-Building Workshop Series, this session focuses on Leadership Development as a way of sustaining our power. The session will cover: defining and deepening our understandings of leadership; cultivating, sustaining, and nurturing leadership of members in our organizations; and reflecting on our own leadership and understanding our roles as organizers. ViewCCL Advanced Power-Building Workshop Series – Building Power: Base Building (apply by 2/16)
02/27/2026 10:00 am
The second workshop in our 5-Part Power-Building Workshop Series, this session focuses on Base Building as a key organizing practice and strategy for bringing folks into organizing in ways that build power for the long-term. We’ll invite participants to: develop a shared definition of our base; get clear on what base building is (and isn’t!); delve into the theory and practice of base building as long-term strategy; and learn tools for mapping and recruiting members. View