TRANSCRIPT – HIT 1Q2023 Video (3:49 Minutes)
Clifton Moore, Board Member, Reconnecting McDowell: All the challenges that are here. It's a monumental task.
Text: “The Problem with Housing in America”
Chrystal Kornegay, Executive Director, MassHousing: Affordable housing is very much needed here.
Frank Callahan, President, Mass. Building Trades Council: Communities are experiencing a real housing crunch. It’s been going on for quite some time.
JoAnn Barbour, Executive Director, Charlesview, Inc.: People are saying, I need a place for my family and I can't afford to live here.
Erik Forman, Affordable Housing Researcher - Spitzer School of Architecture, Consultant to HIT: In the early 1900s, it was a worker organization that built the first limited equity co-op housing. That model was taken by the unions and brought to scale from the mid 1920s until the mid 1970s.
Text: “Co-op City ground-breaking The Bronx, New York City, 1966”
Text: “JFK Dedicates Housing Development”
John J. Sweeney, President Emeritus, AFL-CIO: John F Kennedy issued a call to organized labor: “This housing project demonstrates what labor can do.”
Text: Residences@150 Bagley project sign
Erik Forman: And that legacy continues today with the work of the Housing Investment Trust.
Text: “Labor Launches Plan to Invest in Housing”
Clifton Moore: And so if unions existed for that purpose then, they exist for this purpose now. And we need them now more than ever.
Erik Forman: There's enormous demand for affordable housing, and it obviously can be done.
Text: HIT LEADS THE WAY FINANCED 583 PROJECTS NATIONWIDE
Erik Forman: To build housing, you need land, you need labor, you need financing, and you need people to live in the housing. The Housing Investment Trust is connected to constituencies, which can bring all those elements together for successful projects.
Text: 95 Saint Alphonsus Street Apartments project sign
Bart Mitchell, CEO, Community Builders: The Housing Investment Trust was great at that, working with the state housing finance agency, with our investors, and with the whole development team.
Text:
124,922 HOUSING AND HEALTHCARE UNITS (67% AFFORDABLE)
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Byron Osbern, Business Representative, IBEW Local 58: The HIT fund is our members money in action.
Vincent Alvarez, President, NYC Central Labor Council, HIT Trustee: Now we're putting those pension investments to work. So it's a win-win situation, because we're creating the housing and we're creating good jobs and we're benefiting workers in the communities in which they live.
Text: RESULTING IN 194.7 MILLION HOURS OF UNION CONSTRUCTION WORK
(Map Graphic) HIT PROJECTS IN CONSTRUCTION/COMMITTED as of December 31, 2022
California
4 Projects Under Construction
1.6M Hours of Union Construction Work
$96.5M Invested or Allocated
Oregon
1 Project Under Construction
19.0K Hours of Union Construction Work
$24.4 M Invested or Allocated
Texas
1 Project Under Construction
0.3M Hours of Union Construction Work
$37.0M Invested or Allocated
Hawaii
1 Project Under Construction
0.4M Hours of Union Construction Work
$17.1M Invested or Allocated
Missouri
1 Project Under Construction
0.4M Hours of Union Construction Work
$32.0M Invested or Allocated
Minnesota
14 Projects Under Construction
3.8M Hours of Union Construction Work
$427.1M Invested or Allocated
Wisconsin
1 Project Under Construction
1.5M Hours of Union Construction Work
$104.7M Invested or Allocated
Illinois
8 Projects Under Construction
2.0M Hours of Union Construction Work
$284.0M Invested or Allocated
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Michigan
2 Projects Under Construction
1.0M Hours of Union Construction Work
$55.8M Invested or Allocated
Ohio
1 Project Under Construction
0.4M Hours of Union Construction Work
$10.0M Invested or Allocated
Pennsylvania
2 Projects Under Construction
0.4M Hours of Union Construction Work
$18.8M Invested or Allocated
New York
2 Projects Under Construction
5.9M Hours of Union Construction Work
$150.0M Invested or Allocated
Massachusetts
3 Projects Under Construction
1.9M Hours of Union Construction Work
$80.1M Invested or Allocated
Byron Osbern: The partnership with HIT is really the lifeblood of us continuing on.
Lou Antonellis, Business Manager, IBEW, Local 103: We can take a sigh of relief knowing that HIT's projects are 100% union.
JoEllen Racicot, Site Safety Engineer: So that was really exciting for us to get people that potentially could live in it or have family members be living in these homes, actually working on these buildings.
Gary LaBarbera: What really makes the most sense is we're putting union pension dollars to work, not only creating very strong returns for the funds, but also creating additional man hours for the funds.
Text: Old Colony Worker Appreciation Lunch, Boston, MA
Brian Doherty, Secretary Treasurer, Boston Building and Construction Trades Council: AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust works nationwide to repurpose our pension plans to make sure they’re building safe, strong housing in every city that needs it, so we can't do it without partnerships like that.
Text: (Circular Graphic) UNION WAGES – PENSION – HIT FUND – HIT FINANCING AND RETURNS – CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
Miriam Y. Vega, Ph.D, Chief Executive Officer, Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center: So it all comes together. It's one large ecosystem.
Gary LaBarbera: It all plays into the big picture.
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Producer: Why are you proud to be able to help people have a place to live?
Nigel McKnight, Iron Workers, Local 6: Because that's the American way, and I believe that everybody should have a piece of the pie at the end of the day, but you just got to work hard for it.
Liz Shuler, President, AFL-CIO: Projects like this really are building a brighter future for the community and the next generation.
Erik Forman: What the Housing Investment Trust understands is that affordable housing is the foundation of a successful life.
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HIT’s NATIONAL IMPACT
583 Projects
$10.4 Billion Invested Capital
194.7 Million Hours of Union Construction Work
219,282 Jobs Across Communities
124,922 Units of Housing (67% Affordable)
$40.3 Billion Total Economic Impacts
Tom Colavecchio: Every building, every city block can have affordable housing, and actually, that will be what creates a strong community.
Erik Forman: With the work of the Housing Investment Trust, it's an incredible example of what's possible.
Text: AFL-CIO HOUSING INVESTMENT TRUST
COMPETITIVE RETURNS | UNION CONSTRUCTION JOBS | HOUSING FINANCE
Job and economic impact figures are estimates calculated using IMPLAN, an input-output model, based on HIT and HIT subsidiary Building America CDE, Inc. project data. Data is since inception, current as of December 31, 2022. Economic impact data is in 2021 dollars and all other figures are nominal.
The performance data quoted represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. Investment results and principal value will fluctuate so that units in the HIT, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than the original cost. The HIT’s current performance data may be lower or higher than the performance data quoted. Performance data current to the most recent month-end is available from the HIT’s website at www.aflcio-hit.com.
Investors should consider HIT’s investment objectives, risks and expenses carefully before investing. Investors may view the HIT’s current prospectus, which contains more complete information, on its website at www.aflcio-hit.com and may obtain a copy from the HIT by calling the Marketing and Investor Relations Department collect at 202-331-8055. Investors should read the current prospectus carefully before investing.
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