Impact Integrity Requires
Institutional Governance.
CIG operates with the rigor, transparency, and accountability expected by institutional capital — deploying decades of specialized expertise through a vertically integrated, woman-owned platform built for long-term performance.
Woman-Owned. Mission-Driven. Built to Operate at Scale.
CIG was founded by Amy Rubenstein with a focused conviction: that distressed workforce housing was the most underserved and undercapitalized segment of American real estate, and that a specialized operator with deep execution capability could generate institutional-quality returns while preserving it. Today, CIG is one of the few institutional-scale platforms exclusively dedicated to workforce housing — woman-owned, woman-led, and purpose-built to execute large, complex transactions.
Amy Rubenstein has spent her entire career in workforce housing — developing the operational systems, lender relationships, and market-level expertise that allow CIG to source and execute transactions that generalist institutional operators cannot. She built CIG as a vertically integrated platform, with in-house property management, construction oversight, and asset management functioning as a single coordinated operation.
CIG today targets large-scale multifamily acquisitions — portfolio transactions, receivership assets, and distressed institutional dispositions — exclusively in the workforce housing segment. The firm has deployed over $600 million across 150+ transactions, delivering a 37.3% net IRR with no investor losses across its history. That track record is built entirely on workforce housing. That singular focus is the foundation of CIG’s competitive edge.
A Team That Reflects the Communities We Serve
CIG’s commitment to diversity is not a marketing credential — it is the operating reality of a firm founded, owned, and led by a woman, built from the ground up with a workforce that reflects the communities we invest in.
Vertically Integrated Across the Full Investment Lifecycle
CIG’s governance structure reflects over 20 years of disciplined execution in workforce housing. Our vertically integrated platform allows us to control quality, accountability, and performance at every stage — from acquisition through exit — eliminating reliance on third-party operators whose incentives may not align with investor or resident outcomes.
Three Principles That Define Our Practice
Financial and operational reporting meets the standards expected by institutional investors — with consistent, documented metrics across every portfolio asset.
CIG’s vertically integrated model ensures operational decisions are made by principals with direct accountability for investor outcomes and resident wellbeing.
Investment decisions are made with a long-term horizon, emphasizing durable cash flow over short-term repositioning gains.
Performance Without Compromise
CIG demonstrates that institutional governance and social mission are not in conflict — they are mutually reinforcing. A disciplined operational framework produces better outcomes for investors, residents, and communities simultaneously.
We do not treat impact measurement as a marketing exercise — it is an integral part of how we manage assets and communicate with investors. We report our ESG data, along with our social and environmental policies, directly in our quarterly investor reports, so this information stays consistent, current, and visible to our investors on an ongoing basis.
What We Track & How We Report
Our IRIS+ Governance Metrics
Percentage of organization owned by female or non-binary individuals. CIG: 100% — woman-owned and woman-led.
Number of women in paid employment with the organization. Tracked through HR records; reported annually. CIG’s workforce is majority female at every organizational level.
Employees from groups historically marginalized on the basis of race/ethnicity. Combined female and minority employees represent 85% of CIG’s total workforce.
Demographic groups in leadership of the organization. Every Director-level role at CIG is held by a woman. Reported annually in LP impact report.
Diversity as a Structural Commitment
CIG’s workforce diversity reflects the intentional choices of a woman founder who built a firm in her own image — and a deliberate hiring philosophy that has sustained those demographics over 23 years of growth.
CIG is committed to maintaining a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities it serves. 85% of CIG employees are female or from minority backgrounds. 44% of director-level roles are held by women. CIG does not maintain a separate DEI initiative — diversity is embedded in how the firm was built and how it hires.
CIG is a certified Women’s Business Enterprise through the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) — Certification No. WBE2400822, valid through March 15, 2027. View certificate → WBENC certification verifies woman ownership, management, and control of the business.
Delivering Across All Three Dimensions
CIG’s strategy is designed to perform against environmental, social, and governance criteria simultaneously — without tradeoffs. For institutional investors with ESG mandates, our model offers genuine additionality: capital deployed where institutional markets have historically failed to reach.
Environmental modernization and embodied carbon reduction embedded in every capital program.
Workforce housing preserved for 50–80% AMI households without displacement or subsidy
100% woman-owned, 85% female/minority workforce, institutional reporting, 20+ year track record.
For institutional investors operating under ERISA, state pension mandates, or foundation investment policy statements with ESG screens, CIG’s strategy offers genuine additionality — capital deployed into a segment of the housing market that institutional investors have historically avoided, preserving supply that market forces alone would not protect.
CIG is actively building relationships with mission-aligned capital partners — including ESG-mandated institutional investors, impact funds, community development finance institutions, and philanthropic organizations. If our strategy aligns with your mandate, we welcome a direct conversation.
