Mark Olshaker • 8 min read
The numbers tell the story. Urban real estate prices and rents are on a steady rise, as is the population. Usable land is harder to find.
Darryl Hicks • 11 min read
During her 25-year career as an affordable housing professional, Priya Jayachandran has played many roles—lender, developer, regulator, activist—and in the process has become one of the most widely respected advocates in the business.
Shawn McKenna • 7 min read
What will it take for the affordable housing industry to work collectively and collaboratively to achieve more success than ever before and share in the rewards as a team?
Mark Fogarty • 9 min read
Martha Kegel remembers the intense six-month campaign to end veteran homelessness in New Orleans as “building the plane while we were flying it.”
Kaitlyn Snyder • 5 min read
There was a flurry of activity last month from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) around its new National Standards for the Physical Inspection of Real Estate (NSPIRE) demonstration.
Scott Beyer • 7 min read
In 2018, I wrote for TCA about how the affordable housing issue had gained momentum in America, from one that a decade ago nobody talked about, to a rising local and state issue.
Scott Beyer • 6 min read
If U.S. cities want to create far more quality affordable units on public housing sites, they’ll need to follow two strategies: The first is to leverage funds from HUD’s Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program, since it has become the main funding mechanism to repair and manage old public housing.
Darryl Hicks • 11 min read
Whether an affordable housing deal succeeds and remains profitable many years into the future often depends on the asset managers you work with and their level of involvement during the earliest planning stages and in the ensuing years after a property is placed in service.
Mark Fogarty • 6 min read
An alternative way to estimate utility allowances (UA) in Florida is producing lower UA amounts for affordable housing managers – in some cases considerably lower.
John W. Gahan III • 4 min read
In April, fueled by the realization that “the regulations have taken a little longer than anticipated” to be issued, aides to Senators Tim Scott and Cory Booker, the architects of the Opportunity Zone (OZone) legislation, hinted at a bipartisan legislative effort to extend some aspects of the program.
Scott Beyer • 6 min read
When people hear “housing agency,” they likely envision a big city bureaucracy in New York or Philadelphia. But for each of those, there are numerous smaller agencies that serve tiny cities nationwide.