Top Affordable Housing Startups in 2026

PadSplit is an affordable housing tech startup that provides a house-sharing service for the workforce. It offers a platform that aligns incentives among residents, property owners, and communities to make affordable housing possible for the private market. The company uses shared living to make housing more affordable for low-income, empowering them to build savings and transform their lives. Atticus LeBlanc established the company in Atlanta, Georgia in 2017.

New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority is a self-supporting public corporation that promotes, finances and supports affordable housing. We operate rental and homeownership programs designed to assist low- and moderate-income persons with obtaining affordable housing. We have helped more than 50,000 families purchase their own homes and been instrumental in financing the creation of more than 15,000 multi-family housing units.

Founded by industry leaders and entrepreneurs who know there is a better way to design and build, Rize Modular was created to reimagine our living environments and address the massive housing shortage here in the US. State-of-the-art robotics and production technology, coupled with award-winning design, Rize has developed the first end-to-end volumetric building platform to deliver healthy, intelligent, clean, sustainable structures that are of superior quality and produce significantly less waste compared to the traditional building method. The efficiencies of the integrated approach results in a precision-based structure produced in a fraction of the time and at a lower cost.