Firm Profile

Jonathan Rose Companies

Jonathan Rose Companies is one of the country’s leading owners of green, affordable and mixed-income communities. Founded in 1989, with a mission to create a more environmentally thriving, socially just world through the development, preservation, renovation, and ownership of green, affordable and mixed income communities, Rose has created projects with more than $5 billion of value with a current portfolio of nearly 20,000 apartment homes in 14 states and Washington, D.C. 

The Firm is a fully integrated investment management, development, and asset management company with construction management, solar energy, mortgage finance, and title company affiliates. 
 
Since our founding, we have focused on creating replicable model projects that integrate environmental and social responsibility with economic performance. 
 
In this time of increasing income inequality and environmental degradation, we recognize that these issues have been created, in part by an economic system that has failed to consider its full impacts. In response, we have been leaders in creating impact oriented real estate investment vehicles, and developing our own impact management system to drive our work towards whole systems benefits.  
 
We strive to achieve positive environmental impact by investing in energy efficiency, decarbonization, and water conservation to reduce our use of natural resources and toxins.  
 
Our social impact is achieved by preserving and expanding housing affordability, and connecting our residents to health, education, financial, cultural, and social services.  We aim to achieve these impacts in a co-creative process with governments, our residents, and staff. 
 
We have also been thoughtful about where we work – we start by selecting communities that we believe have characteristics of environmental, social, and economic resilience, and seek transit accessible locations with good connections to other infrastructure and resources. We also aim to work in communities that have a strong demand for housing and have made significant commitments to support affordable and environmental solutions. 

There is now quite strong evidence that the zip code one grows up in significantly shapes one’s life outcome. Much affordable housing has been in lower opportunity neighborhoods. Our Communities of Opportunity initiative seeks to overcome this, by enriching our communities with healthier environments, lower energy costs, and by co-creating social, educational, cultural and financial programs with our residents. 
 
We call this combination of affordability, housing quality, social services, and environmental impact a Rose Community. We invite you to join us in this work.