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Talking Heads, The Honorable Jackie Biskupski

10 min read

Despite having one of the hottest economies in the country, Salt Lake City suffers from a shortage of affordable housing.

Economic Research Report: Determining Rents in Mixed-Income Properties

5 min read

Mixed-income development is of increasing importance in the affordable housing industry.

Portland

5 min read

A program to match real estate development with area transit lines in Portland, OR increasingly is targeting affordable housing after regional government found low-income residents ride metro area trains and buses more than other groups do.

Minneapolis

7 min read

On Friday, September 28, 2018, the city of Minneapolis released a 500-page comprehensive development plan that the mayor dubbed “a forward-thinking vision.”

Resident Services: Medicare Advantage’s Many Advantages

7 min read

Sometimes controversy can boost sales. A controversy that shows up repeatedly on your television and in your emails almost daily may irk you, but at the same time it pushes the issue front and center in all of our very crowded minds.

Detroit

6 min read

An ambitious Detroit program to preserve 10,000 existing affordable multifamily units and build 2,000 new ones is moving quickly to prevent the potential 15-year opt-out of a large number of Low Income Housing Tax Credit projects and sustain affordability in the Motor City.

New Developments, Rethinking Preservation

4 min read

Historically, when policy makers and advocates discuss preservation, we are referring to the preservation of rental assistance contracts that are associated with older HUD and/or USDA Rural Development assisted properties (i.e. Section 8 Project-Based Rental Assistance, Section 515, etc.).

There’s a Nurse in the House

9 min read

USA Properties discovered that 25 percent of the residents in its senior communities moved out due to health issues. With two-thirds of its portfolio involving seniors, President and CEO Geoff Brown wondered what else he could do in the senior space.

The Land of OZ

9 min read

Gerry Golden, the venerable founder of The Golden Companies, dabbled with semi-retirement in 2018, having transitioned day-to-day operations of his affordable housing operation to his children, Gina and Greg, in 2017.

Talking Heads: Julianna Stuart, POAH

9 min read

For the past three years, Preservation of Affordable Housing, Inc. (POAH), a Boston-based, nonprofit affordable housing developer and property owner, has improved the lives of its tenants through a federal program called Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS).

Challenged Assets

5 min read

In late 2016, the Millennia Companies, a vertically integrated real estate development and management firm in Cleveland, OH, that owns and manages nearly 30,000 residential units spread across 27 states, entered into a contract to purchase a portfolio of Section 8 properties from the financially troubled Global Ministries Foundation (GMF) of Memphis, TN.

Making Healthcare Convenient

7 min read

There’s plenty of data to indicate Maryland’s Health Enterprise Zones (HEZ) have been successful in their goal of reducing health disparities for racial and ethnic minorities and reducing healthcare costs in the state.

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