Public House

While some attention is paid to the state of affordable units nationwide, the application process for obtaining affordable units is rarely scrutinized. However, affordable housing application processes need consideration. With increasing regulations and oversight from funders, affordable housing providers must collect information to ensure qualified households fill their units. However, the method and organization of such collection remain a challenge. Public House has worked with dozens of affordable housing clients nationwide, from small community land trusts to enterprise housing organizations with developments in multiple locations. Our experience helping those providers process thousands of applications and documents every year and reviewing those documents has taught us a lot about the pain points for affordable housing organizations. The Organizing Challenge Our clients often tell us that reviewing and storing applicant documents was difficult before Public House. Documents were submitted to an online system, over email, or even in person, which required the creation of clunky systems to deal with the paper trail.? Behind the scenes, providers often used spreadsheets to track the application process and struggled to ensure that documents stayed organized while being reviewed. When application systems are piecemeal, maintaining accurate submission records and reviewing documents becomes challenging. Providers must spend more time focusing on time-consuming administrative tasks rather than their passion for housing those in need. Enter Public House.? Affordable Housing Organized. With Public House, receiving, reviewing, and keeping organized records is easy. Using Salesforce and Homekeeper as a base, Public House ensures affordable housing organizations can be more organized, make faster decisions, and ensure that the right households match available units based on income, household size, or other metrics. Applicants use our online system to submit all their documents. Providers use Public House to see where individual applicants are in the process and review documents from complete applications. Our system organizes applications and safely transfers them to your secure cloud storage, so any time you need access to them, you know where to find them. Imagine having all your applications in one place, being able to review documents in that system, and making decisions quickly. That’s the magic of Public House. Contact us today for a demo!

We build online tools to support and increase the impact of affordable housing organizations! Public House is a comprehensive application management system that has quickly become an essential tool for housing organizations of all types and sizes. Public House provides the infrastructure and automation that small 1-2 person teams need to process applications online. Larger teams collaborate to scale up their efficiency to handle large applicant volumes. Our clients house 1,700 new applicants per month, who upload 24k supporting documents to our system. #affordablehousing #software #startup #nonprofits

?????????????? ???? ???????????? ?????????? Public House is a comprehensive homeownership and rental application management system that helps nonprofit and affordable housing organizations streamline processes and make faster decisions. Our online affordable housing application integrates with Salesforce, Homekeeper and one of several cloud document storage systems. Our Clients Public House partners with affordable housing providers across the United States. Our clients include: ? City and county government housing authorities. ? Habitat for Humanity organizations in urban and rural areas, ? Community Land Trusts throughout the country, ? Large Rental Housing Providers If Public House seems like a dynamic tool for all types of affordable housing providers, that’s because it is! Applicant Benefits Intuitive design, visual guides and helpful text enable applicants to independently complete applications, upload supporting documents, agree to terms, electronically sign, and pay application fees. Public House Features Screening Forms Public House helps you create screening forms to filter households that don’t meet your program’s requirements so that only qualified households can make full applications. Waitlist/Lottery Management Public House’s screening forms automatically put qualified households on your waitlists or in your lottery system based on the criteria you set.? Application Processing Process applications faster with automated calculations and extremely simple document review. Only invite/process applications by focusing on the households that fit the qualifications for your housing opportunities. Automation of Administrative Tasks Public House allows your team to focus on application evaluation and filling vacancies by automating all communications: reminders, waitlist updates, application notifications, and income calculations. Email and SMS text message reminders keep applicants on track throughout the application process. Audit Trail Public House’s audit system provides a date and time stamp of who did what and when. No more digging through old emails and cross-referencing other data sources to piece together applicant histories. Dashboards and Reporting Public House has application analytics and dashboards, so you can monitor what’s happening at the applicant, program, and organizational levels. Applicant Level – Don’t try to remember where every applicant is in their process. Dashboards and reports direct staff to records that require attention. Program Level – Understand the types of households interested in your programs and your homeowners. Process Level – Flow is tracked throughout the applicant experience. See the time and resources required for each part of the process. ?????????? ???????? ?????????? ?????? ???????????? ?????????? ?????? ???????? ???????? ?????????????????? ???? ???????????????????? ?????????????? ????????????????????????. ?????????????? ???? ?????????? ???? ?????? ???? ?? ????????!