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Your complete guide to the Yardi Forum

Everything you need to know about the Yardi Forum, a premier technology training event designed specifically for Yardi affordable housing and PHA users.

02 / 12 / 26

Join us on the road at these senior living events (2026)

Don’t miss these senior living industry events packed with networking opportunities. Team Yardi will be there. Come meet us!

02 / 02 / 26

Outreach Live 2025: Multifamily insights & AI innovations

Explore the top takeaways from Outreach Live 2025, including AI advances, smarter marketing strategies and tools that help multifamily operators streamline leasing and elevate the renter experience.

12 / 18 / 25

REIT report: New podcast spotlights energy reporting practices

Randy Moss, industry principal for Yardi Energy, provided insight into sustainability reporting issues facing REITs and commercial real estate (CRE) in a recent podcast sponsored by Nareit.

11 / 25 / 25

YASC Multifamily Spotlight: What’s new & why it matters

The YASC Multifamily Spotlight showcased Yardi’s latest innovations in AI, leasing and resident engagement, which help clients simplify operations and improve renter satisfaction.

11 / 05 / 25

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Will Telehealth Be

Before the pandemic, telemedicine – defined by the American Academy of Family Physicians as the use of technology to deliver care from a distance, with telehealth comprising the technology and services providing that distance care – reached only about 4% of the patient population. With distancing mandates and stay-at-home orders in place in April 2020, […]

07 / 13 / 21

Housing + Self-Sufficiency

Access to affordable housing can be a life-changing experience for residents, especially when residential units are paired with social services. HUD’s Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program is a perfect example. The goal of FSS is to transform individuals and families by stabilizing housing and providing services like childcare, education, physical and mental health, food and other […]

07 / 12 / 21

Public Transit

What does the future hold for public transit – bus, light rail and subway – after the pandemic’s disruptions? Nationally, public transit ridership dropped by nearly 80% in April 2020 and remained more than 60% below 2019 levels through the rest of the year, with systems in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Boston, Chicago, New York […]

06 / 21 / 21

Creating Solutions

The past year illuminated shortcomings that can no longer be ignored within the affordable housing industry.     “The United States needs more than 7 million additional affordable housing units to meet the current demand. Yet the housing gap continues to widen, due to the triple-whammy of all-time high levels of unemployment, a severe lack of housing and […]

06 / 17 / 21

How High

In the early 1930s, the title of world’s tallest building was claimed three times in rapid succession – by the Bank of Manhattan, the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building, all in New York City. Since then, the designation has changed hands many times, with Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the current […]

06 / 16 / 21

Yardi Acquires Forge

Yardi has announced the acquisition of We Are Forge Ltd (Forge), a Bristol, UK based software company that specializes in visitor management and smart access control for real estate assets including, office, retail, industrial, flexible workspace and the education sector. Founded in 2013, Forge is based in Bristol, UK. Forge designs and develops software that […]

06 / 15 / 21

Fashion Retailers

Stay-at-home orders, occupancy limitations and business closure orders during the pandemic took a big toll on fashion merchants. Renowned retail brands such as Neiman Marcus Group, J. Crew Group Inc., Brooks Brothers, Ascena Retail Group (operator of Ann Taylor, Lane Bryant and others) all filed for bankruptcy protection last year as sales plummeted 86% in […]

06 / 14 / 21

Sound Bites

Few effects of the pandemic were felt as immediately or universally as food consumption. Barren supermarket shelves, higher prices and social distancing edicts forced many consumers to develop new patterns for obtaining and preparing food. According to results from a Consumer Reports survey published in January, about 80% of Americans made at least one change […]

06 / 11 / 21

Business Intelligence Tools

How can business intelligence (BI) tools unlock the power of senior living? In collaboration with Yardi, Senior Housing News (SHN) assembled a brand-new white paper to help senior living providers examine the power of BI — and how to utilize it. Here’s a look at what’s covered: Intelligent Business: How Business Intelligence Tools Unlock the […]

06 / 10 / 21

New Student Housing Standards

Experiences shape our approach to built spaces. In 1992, Hurricane Andrew irreversibly changed building codes in Gulf states. About 20 years later, Hurricane Sandy prompted code and regulation shifts in New York and mid-Atlantic states. While natural disasters are often the catalysts, the pandemic has made its own mark upon built environments. Student housing experts […]

06 / 07 / 21

Yardi Congratulates SFHS

In the world of senior living, it’s inspiring to see organizations working to stay innovative and go above and beyond with resident care. With that, Yardi joins LeadingAge Minnesota in honoring St. Francis Health Services (SFHS) for their outstanding accomplishments in aging services. Recognized with the Award of Honor for Performance Excellence in Aging Services, […]

05 / 31 / 21

Reaching 100

How does somebody live to be 100? Genes, environment or just luck? In the 20th century the average life expectancy rose 30 years, the greatest gain in 5,000 years of human history, according to health information source Prevention, which also said that the centenarian club increased 51% between 1990 and 2000. What explains this progression? […]

05 / 30 / 21

ESG Strategies

Dealing with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic has made commercial real estate landlords and tenants focus on new strategies for employee safety. Simultaneously, the industry has had to adjust protocols and practices as calls for equity have become corporate priorities throughout the U.S. and the world. This has created a focus on ESG (Environmental, […]

05 / 28 / 21

Is Train Travel

Most people are aware of the challenges that the pandemic has posed for operators and customers of U.S. airlines, which moved 927 million passengers in 2019. How about train travel, which 32.5 million passengers – more than the population of Texas – chose during the 2019 fiscal year? As national railroad service Amtrak begins to […]

05 / 23 / 21

Poll Results

Want real feedback on multifamily performance? We’ve got you covered with new poll data from a recent NAA virtual event. The April NAA Digital Studio, presented by Yardi, explored the theme of “Stronger NOI in 2021: Where do we grow from here?” Experts from leading multifamily companies across the country discussed how COVID-19 impacted the […]

05 / 21 / 21