Articles Archives

Talking Heads Steve Glickman, Develop LLC

11 min read

As a senior economic advisor to President Barack Obama, Steve Glickman sought out policymakers, economists, investors, business and community leaders and other experts and gathered ideas that could be used to help struggling communities recover from the Great Recession.

NMTC Allocation Trends

6 min read

The traditional wisdom is that the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) and the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) operate in two separate arenas: housing for the LIHTC and business/commercial for the NMTC.

Love Your Company’s Affordable Housing Portfolio? So Buy It.

6 min read

Brian McGeady and Michael Riechman share a dedication to affordable housing, a dedication that is reflected in the origin story of their new company, MVAH Partners.

Housing USA, Pittsburgh

6 min read

This city has made headlines recently as one that’s transitioning from an old to a new economy.

New Developments, Thanksgiving & The Midterms

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.

Attention!

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.

Housing USA, Philadelphia

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.

Income Averaging Trends

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.

Talking Heads, Laura Burns President & CEO, Eagle Point Companies

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.

The Cost of Regulations

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.

The Land of OZ

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.

The Rise Of YIMBY

6 min read

How do good ideas go from theory into political reality? This has become a pressing question for America’s YIMBY movement.

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