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Unlocked: How NMCEH Centralized Landlord Engagement in Albuquerque — and Cut Housing Search Time Nearly in Half
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Unlocked: How NMCEH Centralized Landlord Engagement in Albuquerque — and Cut Housing Search Time Nearly in Half

Starting from zero in August 2024, NMCEH built a vetted landlord network serving 15 agencies and more than 100 case managers — and cut average housing search time nearly in half.

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Daniel Davis May 18, 2026 · 8 min read
Unlocked: How NMCEH Centralized Landlord Engagement in Albuquerque — and Cut Housing Search Time Nearly in Half
Unlocked (Community Success Stories)
Unlocked: How NMCEH Centralized Landlord Engagement in Albuquerque — and Cut Housing Search Time Nearly in Half

Starting from zero in August 2024, NMCEH built a vetted landlord network serving 15 agencies and more than 100 case managers — and cut average housing search time nearly in half.

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Daniel Davis May 18, 2026 · 8 min read
Introducing Journey's Property Owner & Manager Portal — Here's What It Enables for Your Program
Product Updates & New Features
Introducing Journey's Property Owner & Manager Portal — Here's What It Enables for Your Program

Property owners without payment visibility call your staff. The Journey Property Owner & Manager Portal changes where that inquiry goes first.

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Daniel Davis Apr 21, 2026 · 7 min read
How Padmission Journey Helped HOM, Inc. Transform Rental Assistance Administration in Los Angeles
Unlocked (Community Success Stories)
How Padmission Journey Helped HOM, Inc. Transform Rental Assistance Administration in Los Angeles

Unlocked covers what changes when housing assistance programs are built on a consistent operational standard — not what communities intend, but what the work actually looks like once the structure is in place.

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Daniel Davis Mar 25, 2026 · 6 min read
Unlocked: How Syracuse Designed Centralized Landlord Engagement For System-Level Coordination
Unlocked (Community Success Stories)
Unlocked: How Syracuse Designed Centralized Landlord Engagement For System-Level Coordination

The CNY CHANCE program, powered by Padmission Connect, surpassed its first-year housing placement goal in just nine months through structured system-level coordination.

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Daniel Davis Mar 24, 2026 · 7 min read
Centralized Landlord Engagement for Continuums of Care (CoCs)
Landlord Engagement & Partnerships
Centralized Landlord Engagement for Continuums of Care (CoCs)

A structural guide to building scalable housing access — how CoCs can consolidate fragmented outreach into unified landlord engagement infrastructure.

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Daniel Davis Mar 12, 2026 · 10 min read
Why Administering Housing Programs Has Become So Difficult — and What Needs to Change
Rental Assistance Administration & System Design
Why Administering Housing Programs Has Become So Difficult — and What Needs to Change

Permanent housing assistance is the most effective tool we have to end homelessness. The challenge today isn't commitment or expertise — it's the absence of systems built to carry the work as it actually exists.

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Michael Shore Feb 18, 2026 · 8 min read
Why Continuums of Care Should Centralize Rental Assistance Administration
Rental Assistance Administration & System Design
Why Continuums of Care Should Centralize Rental Assistance Administration

When dozens of providers each solve the same compliance-heavy problems independently, fragmentation surfaces at the system level. Centralized rental assistance administration is the structural response.

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Michael Shore Feb 18, 2026 · 7 min read
Enhanced Unit Reservation and Case Manager Inquiry Process
Product Updates & New Features
Enhanced Unit Reservation and Case Manager Inquiry Process

Reserved units are often the most actionable housing options available to case managers — and one of the easiest places for coordination to break down. Connect now treats reservations as shared, first-class inventory.

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Daniel Davis Feb 10, 2026 · 6 min read
Native Mobile App for Inspections in Padmission Journey
Product Updates & New Features
Native Mobile App for Inspections in Padmission Journey

Inspection teams can complete required unit inspections in the field, sync results back to Journey, capture photos, and schedule reinspections — without leaving the platform.

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Daniel Davis Jan 30, 2026 · 4 min read
Unlocked: How Indianapolis Centralized Rehousing Through HomeNow Indy
Unlocked
Unlocked: How Indianapolis Centralized Rehousing Through HomeNow Indy

Building trust, system capacity, and faster rehousing through shared infrastructure.

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Daniel Davis Jan 28, 2026 · 7 min read
Building Shared Understanding in Housing Search: New Help Center Guides in Padmission Connect
Product Updates & New Features
Building Shared Understanding in Housing Search: New Help Center Guides in Padmission Connect

When guidance is fragmented, systems slow down. New role-based Help Center Guides in Padmission Connect put role-specific support inside the workflow itself.

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Daniel Davis Jan 14, 2026 · 4 min read
Unlocked: How Cincinnati's CoC Centralized Housing Navigation and Opened More Doors for Households in Need
Unlocked
Unlocked: How Cincinnati's CoC Centralized Housing Navigation and Opened More Doors for Households in Need

How RentConnect uses Padmission Connect to coordinate landlord relationships, unit access, and housing search across 30 partner agencies.

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Daniel Davis Dec 4, 2025 · 7 min read
Empowering Client Choice with Padmission Connect
Product Updates & New Features
Empowering Client Choice with Padmission Connect

In communities across the country, Padmission Connect is helping housing programs put choice back into the hands of the people they serve.

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Daniel Davis Nov 24, 2025 · 5 min read
Partnering with Padmission Communities: A Smarter Way for Property Owners to Fill Vacancies and Make an Impact
Property Owners & Operators
Partnering with Padmission Communities: A Smarter Way for Property Owners to Fill Vacancies and Make an Impact

Padmission Connect is the software local agencies use to enable owners and operators to offer their units to rental assistance program tenants — here's how those partnerships work.

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Daniel Davis Nov 12, 2025 · 5 min read
Unlocked: How Partnership Home Uses Padmission Connect to Strengthen Landlord Engagement
Unlocked (Community Success Stories)
Unlocked: How Partnership Home Uses Padmission Connect to Strengthen Landlord Engagement

In most communities, landlord engagement starts and ends with whoever picked up the phone last. Partnership Home recognized this as a system design problem — and built a centralized model where property relationships became system assets instead of individual ones.

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Daniel Davis Oct 16, 2025 · 5 min read
We're Growing Our Team To Help Connect Customers Implement Landlord Engagement
Company News
We're Growing Our Team To Help Connect Customers Implement Landlord Engagement

A new role at Padmission, created to strengthen how we support our partners, listen to feedback, and continually improve the Padmission Connect platform.

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Michael Shore Aug 1, 2025 · 3 min read
Introducing Journey, the industry's first homeless housing program administration platform
Product Updates & New Features
Introducing Journey, the industry's first homeless housing program administration platform

Built on three decades of housing program administration experience, Journey delivers end-to-end program execution and the analytics to improve outcomes.

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Michael Shore Jul 4, 2024 · 3 min read
Property Engagement in the 2022 Special NOFO
Landlord Engagement & Partnerships
Property Engagement in the 2022 Special NOFO

HUD's Special NOFO calls for centralized, system-level landlord engagement. Here's how Padmission helps CoCs build it.

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Kevin McKee Sep 14, 2022 · 5 min read
New Map Search for Desktop and Mobile
Product Updates & New Features
New Map Search for Desktop and Mobile

Spatial visibility is a core requirement of effective coordinated housing search. Map Search puts it in the workflow, not in a separate tool.

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Kevin McKee Apr 6, 2022 · 2 min read
Manage Units, Inspections, Reservations and Signing Bonuses
Product Updates & New Features
Manage Units, Inspections, Reservations and Signing Bonuses

New unit-level functionality lets housing locators track inspections, hold units, and align with HUD guidance on ESG-CV landlord incentives.

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Michael Shore Nov 1, 2020 · 2 min read
Landlord Incentives: HOM Survey Results
Landlord Engagement & Partnerships
Landlord Incentives: HOM Survey Results

How HOM, Inc. surveyed landlords on signing bonuses, risk mitigation, screening flexibility, and unit reservations — and what the results mean for ESG-CV Rapid Rehousing.

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Michael Shore Oct 16, 2020 · 3 min read
Document Upload and Management
Product Updates & New Features
Document Upload and Management

Tenancy applications, landlord screening criteria, W-9s, MOUs — exchange and manage every housing search and lease-up document directly in the app.

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Kevin McKee May 22, 2020 · 2 min read
Re-Order and Delete Images Update
Product Updates & New Features
Re-Order and Delete Images Update

A short update on a new image management feature — and a note of admiration for the housing professionals navigating the early pandemic.

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Michael Shore Mar 31, 2020 · 1 min read
Property Engagement and Housing Search Assistance
Landlord Engagement & Partnerships
Property Engagement and Housing Search Assistance

As communities scale Permanent Supportive Housing and Rapid Rehousing, there's a clear opportunity to align landlord engagement and housing search at the system level.

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Michael Shore Mar 8, 2020 · 5 min read
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