More information on our governance activities is available in the Places to Connect section of our 2025 Responsible Investments Report.
Responsible
Places to Connect
Our continued success relies on a shared commitment to achieving results and acting responsibly. We encourage everyone at GID to remain accountable for delivering against our goals, prioritizing responsible investment decisions, and remaining transparent and honest about our progress.
Our Responsible Investments Structure
In everything we do, we focus on our residents, tenants, associates, and investors. This extends to our Responsible Investments commitments, which were shaped and finalized by our Executive Committee.
Our Executive Committee members, advised on strategy by the Responsible Investments Committee, hold our status as a responsible enterprise to be a matter of great importance.
Our Responsible Investments Policies and Guidelines
To ensure our strategy remains consistent across the company, we have established a comprehensive set of policies and guidelines. This suite of documents and procedures enables us to create a resilient, sustainable, and coordinated platform from which to operate.
Our Culture of Compliance
We are committed to maintaining accountability across our business. This involves ensuring we comply with all necessary external requirements and internal expectations.
We require all GID associates to follow a Code of Professional Conduct that promotes collaboration, communication, honesty, and understanding. We provide tools and training to reinforce these expectations, including:
- An easily accessible and up-to-date library of compliance-related policies
- Regular training on key compliance topics such as record retention, communications policies, cybersecurity, social media, conflicts of interest, gifts, and political contributions
- An in-house compliance platform that provides a technology-based solution for data organization and tracking, required disclosures, and pre-clearances of marketing materials
Through our ethics hotline and web-based reporting form, associates can confidentially report compliance concerns or suspected wrongdoing. Our Anti-Retaliation Policy ensures reporting is encouraged without fear of repercussions.
Stakeholder and Investor Relations
We recognize the importance good governance holds across our network of stakeholders and associates. Our protocols allow us to build trust, foster open communication, and maintain transparency across our leadership functions and wider business.
We engage in regular communication with stakeholders, centered around results that benefit our business, associates, residents, and tenants.
Our investors are actively engaged in our sustainability performance and progress. To ensure they remain informed, we keep them updated on relevant topics deemed material and of interest, while maintaining transparency and accountability for our overall performance.
Industry Participation
GID is committed to collaborating with industry organizations and maintaining partnerships that support our Responsible Investments strategy.
We remain an active member of the Urban Land Institute’s Greenprint Center for Building Performance, NAIOP, and the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM).
We also continue to engage closely with GRESB, the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA), and the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC). Philip Carmody, our Head of Responsible Investments, is a member of the GRESB Americas Regional Member Council, which aims to facilitate deep regional engagement with experienced GRESB members, ensuring continual market-driven feedback. Our CEO, Greg Bates, currently serves as an NMHC officer and is the Secretary for the organization.
