Tommy DobczykOpportunity Zone Advisor, OZ Wizard · Director of Development | Certified Opportunity Zone Advisor

Multifamily First? Why Single-Family Homes Lose Out! #shorts

10 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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Tommy Dobczyk explains why his development team builds multifamily housing first on mixed-use projects. If multifamily goes up first, opportunity-zone tax benefits disappear for the single-family homes, making them uneconomical to build alone. His strategy: execute all three projects together or not at all.

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We do the multifamily if we do the multifamily first. Well, I've gone over this with you, Adam. If the multifamily done is done first, then there's no, there's no opportunity zone. People that want to go and do the single family home. So it has to. But we do. But there's no sense in us doing just that 1 of 3 When we know we can do all three. So again, it's. It's not a matter of whether or not it can be done. It's a matter of we don't want to do it if we can't do all three.