Affordable
housing,
made human.
Six million applications a year. Ten thousand homes. Eighteen months of waiting for an affordable place to live. Harmony is closing the distance.
A system carrying more than it was built for.
How long a family waits to move in
Applications a year, for ten thousand homes
Lost in NYC every year to empty units, expired applications, and manual review
A clear guided path to affordable housing.
Harmony handles every step. One conversation for the applicant. One dashboard for the agent. One operator owning the outcome.
Apply by text. Any language. Any time.
A 24/7 SMS conversation in any language. Snap a photo of a pay stub. Harmony reads it. No app to download, no portal to log into, no office hours to keep.
Every applicant, every action, in one place.
A real-time dashboard for marketing agents. Applicants reviewed and contacted in seconds. Direct data integrations pull bank statements, tax transcripts, and IDs from the source. No chasing.
Auditable. Compliant. A partner by design.
Every action timestamped, every decision documented. Secure, auditable, and compliant from day one, designed to the standards HPD, LIHTC, and federal compliance require. We work alongside the agencies that fund this work, not around them.
Housing is
the entry point.Access is
the destination.
Affordable housing is the start. The same rails work for Medicaid, SNAP, CTC, WIC, and SSI. Every public benefit where eligibility is the bottleneck.
Operators, founders, and city veterans, in one room.
Russell A. Kivler
Founder
Managing Partner at one of the industry's premier affordable housing law firms, with more than twenty years as trusted counsel to NYC's developers, agencies, lenders, and LIHTC investors. Harmony is the platform Russ and Clark conceived and built based on 20+ years of deep operational and technology knowledge and insight.
Clark Valberg
Partner
Founder of InVision, where he helped define how modern digital products are built. Clark contributes decades of experience in product strategy and company-building to Harmony's long-term platform vision.
Mairi Lamont
Partner
Russell's partner on Harmony since day one — co-authoring the original research, walking the buildings, and shaping the operational thesis the company runs on. Mairi holds the bar for the human side of the work: who the applicant is, what they're carrying, what the system owes them.
Zach Rabin
CEO
Former CEO of Aaptiv, where he led the company through its sale and integration into Pear Health Labs. Zach is a NYC startup veteran with experience building and scaling mission-driven products.