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Phoenix Realty Group creates $250 million affordable housing fund.


Phoenix Realty Group (PRG PRG Parti Radical de Gauche (French: Left Radical Party)
PRG Purge
PRG Programming Research Group (Oxford University)
PRG Preliminary Remediation Goal
PRG People's Revolutionary Government
) has formed the $250 million Metropolitan Workforce Housing Workforce housing is a relatively new term that is increasingly popular among planners, government administrators and housing activists, and is gaining cachet with home builders, developers and lenders.  Fund to provide market-rate housing to middle-income families and community revitalizing commercial development throughout the Tri-State region of New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
, New Jersey and Connecticut.

By partnering to make equity investments with community-based developers, the fund's capital will be leveraged to provide more than $1 billion of residential and commercial development, according to J. Michael Fried, PRG Founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . Individual project investments may range from $3 million to $20 million for projects that could range in size from $10 million to $100 million.

"At a time when the Tri-State region has experienced significant growth in jobs and population and tremendous inflation in housing costs, it is essential to increase the availability of housing that is affordable to the key middle-income workforce, including teachers, office workers, firefighters and police," said Keith Rosenthal, President and Co-Founder of PRG. PRG currently manages an additional $243 million in funds for building workforce housing and commercial properties in California.

Ralph Raciti, Managing Director of Urban Private Equity Funds for PRG's Northeast Region, spearheads the activity of the Metropolitan Workforce Housing Fund. Raciti is responsible for the origination, underwriting, due diligence Research; analysis; your homework. This term has caught on in all industries, because it sounds so "wired." Who would want to do analysis or research when they can do due diligence. See wired.  and closing of investments by the fund.
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Title Annotation:INDUSTRY INSIDER
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Date:Sep 1, 2006
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