Housing Partnership Network announces launch of Tulsa Housing Impact Fund
By Ben Morgan – KRMG News11/20/2025 7:55am TULSA, Okla. – The Housing Partnership Network (HPN) announced the launch of its Tulsa Housing Impact Fund, marking a significant milestone in the City’s effort to expand access to affordable and sustainable housing for all Tulsans. “HPN is a national membership association and we are here to do two things: to bring capital and to leverage that local capital with national capital to invest in affordable housing in the City of Tulsa, around the continuum of housing needs that the City has, to get those 6,000 units that the mayor has set as a goal for his administration,” explained Robin Hughes, the President and CEO of The Housing Partnership Network. Hughes said HPN will be working throughout the city to provide affordable housing for every community. “We will actually be working with developers to lend and invest to their development projects that will be throughout the city, but an emphasis in those communities that have experienced long-term disinvestment like north Tulsa and east Tulsa. We’re really here to support the development community and to grow the development community here in Tulsa. We bring our national expertise as a lender, but also as a community builder to the work that we’re doing here.” Another important goal for HPN is to ensure developers continue the upkeep of these developments for years to come. “A critical part—and I’ve been working in this industry for three decades now—but a critical part of building affordable housing is the long-term operations and management. That is also an important issue that the City Councilors have brought up is ensuring that we are investing in good developers and owner/operators and that housing stock is maintained over time. If projects receive the public resources, for example, there will be covenants on their property and they will include how these owners are operating and managing the property to ensure that there aren’t any code violations, that tenants are treated fairly, that there’s capital investment over time to maintain the property.” Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols said the City’s commitment to affordable housing is about tackling more problems and helping more Tulsans than just those experiencing homelessness. “Folks are in a lot of different places,” said Mayor Nichols. “Affordable housing is not just about our community that’s homeless right now, but it’s also about teachers and public servants. We talk a lot about how we want to be a city where a teacher can afford to buy a home in the neighborhood that they teach in. We want to be a place where a public servant can afford to live in the community that they serve. This is about that.” The Tulsa Housing Impact Fund will be led by a locally directed board and managed by the Housing Partnership Network.
