Thom Amdur • 3 min read
On this recent Thanksgiving, I hope our elected officials—both present and future—took the opportunity to remember the spirit of collaboration between the Mayflower Pilgrims and the Wampanoags on that first Thanksgiving.
Mark Fogarty • 6 min read
Can the four percent and nine percent tax credits co-exist peacefully in the same housing project? At the Building 9 project in Sands Point, Seattle, Mercy Housing Northwest decided the two forms of credit could, as long as they were segregated into separate projects in the same development.
Scott Beyer • 6 min read
There is a shortage of good urbanism in America. There are only eight, “legacy cities,” where dense, transit-oriented neighborhoods spread contiguously over many square miles.
Mark Fogarty • 7 min read
State housing finance agencies are still feeling their way into the new Income Averaging (IA) authority, with no clear consensus yet on standard practices for how it will be implemented.
Darryl Hicks • 13 min read
In 2007, Laura Burns created an investment fund, Eagle Point Ventures, that acquired General Partnership (GP) interests in tax credit-financed projects and yielded strong returns for its investors.
Mark Olshaker • 12 min read
These comments were offered by Steven E. Lawson, chairman of The Lawson Companies, on behalf of the National Association of Home Builders at a September 6 hearing of the Housing and Insurance Subcommittee of the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee.
Jerome A. Breed • 6 min read
As you have read in these pages, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 enacted a new incentive for community development, the Opportunity Zone Program found in Internal Revenue Code Sections 1400Z-1 and -2.
Scott Beyer • 6 min read
How do good ideas go from theory into political reality? This has become a pressing question for America’s YIMBY movement.
Thom Amdur • 4 min read
According to a recent report published by the Council of Community Finance Agencies (CDFA), 2017 was a record setting year for multifamily private activity bond issuances – $15,302,500,000 in total.
Scott Beyer • 6 min read
Much like America’s East Coast, the West Coast is struggling from a housing affordability problem – meaning Washington, Oregon and California.
John W. Gahan III • 5 min read
The last couple years of watching Washington has taught us that everything is fair game for subjective (call that “partisan”) interpretation.
Darryl Hicks • 10 min read
Brian Goeken is widely regarded as one of the nation’s top historic preservation experts with a background spanning over 25 years in urban planning, architecture, economic development and urban design.