1DROP at the BHI All-Partner Summit

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On February 10, 2026, the Black Home Initiative (BHI) network gathered for its All-Partner Summit, a full-day experience dedicated to advancing housing equity and strengthening community impact. As an Impact Network focused on targeting racial inequities to increase homeownership among Black households, the summit served as a critical point for partners to reconnect to a shared purpose and align on priorities for the year ahead.

As a BHI network partner, 1DROP highlighted the collective's impact on the regional homeownership pipeline and advocated for a recommitment to the network's shared priorities.

Recommitting to the Work

As a member of BHI’s core team, Dominique Remy, 1DROP co-founder, helped facilitate a summit session guiding partners through BHI’s organizational self-assessment and engagement planning process.

BHI operates on the principle that systemic change requires active participation. Partners commit to defining, tracking, and reporting on specific activities that contribute to the network's shared priority of increasing Black homeownership. 

These commitments include:

  • Home production

  • Mortgage lending

  • Revenue generation

  • Capacity-building initiatives, and

  • Sharing promising practices to strengthen collective learning, generalization, and contextualization of things that work

During this session, partners were also reminded of the BHI Network Pledge—a set of principles grounding the work in urgency, collaboration, trust, and wholehearted engagement. The pledge calls on partners to right the wrongs of past discriminatory practices, embrace the ambiguity of adaptive work, and stay committed to ensuring Black homebuyers get an opportunity to purchase homes.

The pledge process is designed to move partners from intention to action. It asks organizations to be honest about their current capacity, identify gaps, and commit to measurable outcomes that align with BHI's mission.

1DROP's Homeownership Pipeline

Rasheed Thompson, 1DROP’s Chief of Staff, shared a progress update that showcased the scale of our collective impact over the past year. The numbers reflect a model that is working to reduce risk and shorten timelines for developers of color:

  • 27 developers of color supported (11 aspiring, 9 emerging, 7 established)

  • 15 for-sale projects currently in the pipeline

  • 220+ for-sale units at or below 120% AMI in the active pipeline

  • 1,400+ homes in the broader member pipeline (ownership + rentals)

These outcomes are the result of infrastructure that didn't exist two years ago. Through 30+ workshops, working sessions, and convenings, 1DROP has created 580+ member touchpoints across programming. Seventeen co-development projects representing 870+ homes are advancing because developers are building together, not alone.

A Network Built on Active Commitment

The event made visible the scale of collaboration driving this work—125 partner organizations spanning public, private, and nonprofit sectors, each bringing distinct capacity and expertise to a shared priority.

As the year unfolds, the focus remains clear: strengthen the developer base, advance projects in the pipeline, and continue building the regional infrastructure needed to increase Black homeownership at scale.

The 2026 BHI All-Partner Summit was a structured moment of reflection, recommitment, and alignment. For 1DROP, it was also a reminder that the collective's work—supporting developers through feasibility, permitting, financing, and construction—is essential to turning network commitments into completed homes. The work is collaborative. The commitments are active. And the infrastructure to support long-term impact continues to take shape.

About 1DROP 

Updated 1/30/2026

1DROP is a collective of underrepresented real estate developers addressing the Puget Sound housing crisis. We are committed to empowering underrepresented developers to build housing for all wages, all stages, and all ages while growing access to generational wealth.

1DROP achieves its mission by internally providing:

  • Apprenticeships for aspiring underrepresented developers.

  • Co-development frameworks for emerging underrepresented developers to navigate partnership models.

  • Mentorship, networking, resources and supports for all underrepresented developers.

and externally:

  • Advocating for funding for underrepresented developers and their projects.

  • Educating on and advancing policy solutions that enable more housing.

For those inspired to learn more or get involved in supporting equitable housing, visit 1DROP's website to explore our initiatives and join us in making an impact.

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