Making the Case: CDEs Developing Standards, Best Practices for NMTC Community Impact Analysis

By Caitlin Jones
March 15, 2011 1 min read

Tax Credit Advisor, March 2011: An ad hoc group of community development entities (CDEs) is developing recommended standards and best practices for community impact analysis for real estate, community facility, and business projects financed by or seeking federal new markets tax credits.

The aim is more uniformity in the content of such studies, greater accuracy, to aid CDEs in reporting to the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund, and to bolster the ability of advocates to justify the program’s existence – and argue for making the NMTC program permanent – before Congress and the Obama Administration.

Leveraging NMTC and GGRF

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Increasingly, climate solutions are central to preserving and creating wealth and well-being in communities across the country.

What Can Be Done About Insurance?

NH&RA Panelists Explore Ways to Rein in High Insurance Costs for Affordable Housing

Pamela Martineau • September 1, 2024 6 min read

Meet with your underwriter in person, provide as much data as possible on relevant inspections and offer photos of improvements you’ve made to affordable housing properties. These were just a few of the tips offered at the National Housing & Rehabilitation Association’s Summer Institute Panel: “What Can Be Done About Insurance?”

Rainbow Housing: Transforming Resident Services from Within

Abram Mamet • September 1, 2024 9 min read

For most organizations, radical shifts in market strategy and company makeup generally come after crises. For Rainbow Housing Assistance Corporation (Rainbow), that radical shift came not as a result of significant challenges, but as a way to leverage successful internal practices to better serve the affordable housing industry.