Case Study: Hacienda improves affordable housing development efficiency with Builders Patch

Enabling young talent to build better housing

Hacienda, a Portland-based nonprofit community development corporation focused on affordable housing, was spending too much time on repetitive manual work like filing, data entry, and hunting for documents across thousands of files. As the team grew and brought on younger, less experienced talent, Hacienda needed a better way to manage its development pipeline and keep projects moving efficiently while preserving space for creativity.

Builders Patch provided a digital platform for project analytics, document storage, collaborative to-do lists, due diligence, and financing workflows, along with onboarding support and templates tailored to affordable housing development. With Builders Patch, Hacienda streamlined its processes, organized thousands of documents, reduced manual errors, and saved significant time—at one point avoiding more than a week spent searching for a single contract—while improving transparency, productivity, and its ability to hire and ramp up new staff.

Hacienda

Kevin Kellogg‍

Director of Real Estate Development