Overview

When Carl Lindsey Sr. was persuaded to take a position as executive director of the newly-organized Newport Housing Authority in 1959, the Lindsey name became synonymous with the public housing industry. As the requests grew for Carl Sr. and his wife, Margaret, to manage the day-to-day operations of public housing in other cities, they decided in 1961 to devote full-time to the management of subsidized housing. In fact, at one time the couple served as executive director of more than a dozen different housing agencies in Arkansas.

In 1969, Carl Lindsey Jr. joined his parents in the family business and helped them in providing fee accounting services to approximately 24 housing authorities in Arkansas and Missouri under the name Lindsey Accounting Service. Carl Jr. soon took his knowledge of the industry, purchased the company’s first computer system and started in his quest to develop integrated accounting software to simplify the entire process. By the mid 1970s, the family began to focus on fee accounting and business spread into Kansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi.

After personal computers hit the market in the early 1980s, Lindsey and Company, as it was known, began to develop software not only for accounting services but also to assist housing agencies with their waiting lists, tenant and applicant processing, re-exams, accounts receivable, billing, payroll, work orders and other administrative functions.

Today, Lindsey Software is the largest provider of computer software and fee accounting services for the public housing industry. With a simple installation process, an easy-to-use framework and superior training and support, Lindsey Software provides error-free solutions to ease the workload on housing managers.

“My concerns have always been addressed by the Lindsey staff.  Lindsey Software has been sensitive to our needs as a housing authority.  Lindsey also seems to have the inside track on HUD changes as they are handed down from Washington.”  Meridian Housing Authority

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