Pamela Martineau • 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?”
Abram Mamet • 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.
Ethan Finlan • 11 min read
In 2022, New York State announced that it would require new and rebuilt high-rise buildings to be fully electric-powered to meet emissions reduction goals.
Pamela Martineau • 5 min read
As an increasing number of cities and states develop programs to subsidize housing for middle-income earners, policymakers must ensure that middle-income programs don’t take vital resources from low-income housing programs.
Abram Mamet • 9 min read
In recent years, owners and developers of low-income housing have turned to the Historic Tax Credit program as another key source of funding for projects looking to preserve or create affordable apartments in historic buildings.
Abram Mamet • 12 min read
Since 2010, the Novogradac Journal of Tax Credits has awarded several developers for distinguished work in a variety of impact areas related to affordable housing.
Pamela Martineau • 6 min read
Forget Siri. Colleen, Elise, Penny and Kelsey are the AI personas that property managers are using to manage tenants’ and housing applicants’ queries.
Pamela Martineau • 4 min read
Nearly 60 percent of surveyed voters cite the lowered cost of housing and rent as key factors that would improve their lives, yet say those same issues are at the near bottom—12th—of issues they hear politicians speak of.
Ethan Finlan • 6 min read
Throughout the mid-20th century, transportation authorities constructed massive infrastructure projects through urban centers, particularly, but not exclusively, highways.
Ravi Malhotra • 3 min read
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is expected to fund approximately $1 trillion in tax credits for clean energy. A significant portion of the funding is for the solar investment tax credits (ITC)…
Ethan Finlan • 5 min read
Since 1996, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has provided loans for affordable multifamily housing in rural areas through its Rural Development Section 538 program.
Pamela Martineau • 7 min read
What does the future hold for interest rates? Many real estate developers, consumers and economists are weighing that question as mortgage interest rates hover at roughly seven percent, more than double what they were during the height of the pandemic.