Pamela Martineau • 8 min read
A lack of workforce housing is a growing element of the nation’s housing crisis and some developers who typically build affordable housing are creatively pulling together financing for housing projects for workers who make above area median income (AMI) but cannot afford market-rate rents.
Abram Mamet • 7 min read
By the time the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) was rolled out as part of the 1986 Tax Reform Act, The Enterprise Foundation was already in a position to become a mission-driven leader in the fledgling LIHTC industry.
Kaitlyn Snyder • 4 min read
The Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act achieved a major milestone – 200 co-sponsors within the House of Representatives (H.R. 3238).
Nate Cushman • 5 min read
In May 2023, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published guidelines related to its Green and Resilient Retrofit Program (GRRP).
Abram Mamet • 8 min read
In the nearly four decades since its creation, the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) has become a critical engine for creating affordable multifamily housing in the United States.
Nushin Huq • 7 min read
Every year, state housing finance agencies are allocated millions of dollars to help fund affordable housing through the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program.
Mark Fogarty • 5 min read
Faith-based affordable housing development is on the rise, and a good example of it can be found in Tacoma, WA where Shiloh Baptist Church is turning two parcels of land it owns into 60 units of housing for vulnerable populations.
Abram Mamet • 8 min read
Over the last two decades, a workforce housing shift has occurred in the many resort towns and communities across the United States.
Althea Broughton • 6 min read
In affordable housing and community development, nothing seems to captivate planners, developers, community advocates and government officials more than a proposed mixed-use development.
Mark Fogarty • 6 min read
Since the Briscoe School in Beverly, MA was a functioning educational facility as recently as 2018, it is likely that at least some of the seniors soon to be living in its adaptive reuse as housing will have memories of learning the Three Rs there (reading, wRiting and aRithmetic).
Nushin Huq • 7 min read
As skyrocketing construction costs and increasing interest rates have driven the need for more capital, affordable housing developers are expressing an increased interest in the master lease pass-through structure in deals involving a combination of Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) and Historic Tax Credits (HTC).
Darryl Hicks • 10 min read
Tony Bertoldi has devoted nearly three decades to the affordable housing business and currently serves as co-president at CREA, LLC, a national Low Income Housing Tax Credit syndicator, where he and his team manage all investment funds and investor relationships.