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2026 The ApartmentBuildings.com 100
Innovators of the Year
- Chris Moltke-Hansen Spearheads Tech Upgrades at Apartment Management Consultants
- Blima Ehrentreu Leads The Designers Group’s Growth Through Technology
- BRIDGE Housing and Avanath Communities Offer A New Model for Affordable Housing Management
- Cap Pointe Advisors and Greystone Break New Ground in Section 8 Financing
- Cherry Development Supports Homeowners with New Program
- Coral Charge Takes EV Charging Off the Utility Grid
- Deloitte Suggests an SaaS Approach to Multifamily
- Drake Property Management Scales Operations With Centralized Tech
- Hotelization is Redefining the Resident Experience
- Ivy Energy’s Logan Carter Encourages Solar As A Revenue-Producing Asset
- Josh Draughn With Hillpointe Turns AI into a Leasing Advantage
- LA Más Uses Community Ownership to Preserve Affordable Housing
- Michael Broder with RCKRBX Relies on Renters For Forecasts
- Model/Z Brings a Manufacturing Mindset to Multifamily Construction
- Morguard Partners with CENGN, Nokia to Create Smart-Building Living Labs
- PearlX’s Simon Herrmann Helps Turn Multifamily Properties Into Energy Assets
- Reframe Brings Robotics, Modular Designs to Residential Construction
- Sarah Segal and Katherine Radziszewski of simplydbs Make Renter Feedback Continuous
- The Oakland Fund’s Rooted Program Supports Educators in Finding Affordable Housing
- Yardi Systems Shifts Multifamily AI From Answers to Action
BRIDGE Housing and Avanath Communities Offer A New Model for Affordable Housing Management
As Executive Vice President of Property Management for Avanath Capital Management and Brighthaven Communities, Carly Stevenson leads one of the nation’s largest and most complex multifamily platforms spanning affordable, mixed-income, and market-rate housing across the United States. It’s a wide-ranging role for which she’s well suited, bringing a multi-decade property management background with deep operational, financial, and organizational expertise to the position
Brighthaven is jointly owned by BRIDGE Housing and Avanath. The platform combines Avanath’s investment and operational expertise with BRIDGE’s long history of affordable housing development and community-focused work.
The venture currently manages the partners’ combined portfolio of approximately 30,000 homes across 15 states, making Brighthaven one of the country’s largest affordable and workforce housing property managers.
Brighthaven positions property management as a specialized platform for affordable and workforce housing, combining operational consistency and scale with residents to expand beyond BRIDGE and Avanath and offer the management platform to other nonprofit and for-profit owners of affordable and workforce housing. That creates the potential for a specialized national management company in a sector where owners often face complex operating requirements while trying to maintain affordability and resident services.
These are some of the reasons why Carly Stevenson was selected to receive ApartmentBuildings.com’s AB 100 Innovators of the Year Award, which recognizes those who demonstrate creativity, skill and success in the multifamily industry.
