Scott Beyer • 6 min read
Memphis and Nashville are viewed as the two prominent cities of Tennessee. But their realities, both at street level and in statistics, are very different.
Scott Beyer • 6 min read
The rise in home costs has led to some creative solutions and workarounds by city governments to reduce prices.
Cash Gill • 8 min read
Despite the dire rumors that hung like a dark cloud over the federal tax and budget negotiation processes for the past year, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018, also known as the Omnibus Spending Bill, that emerged contains aspects that can have a positive impact on the affordable housing industry.
Thom Amdur • 3 min read
This has been a remarkable few months in Washington. Our broken legislative process once again leaned us over the edge of the budget precipice.
Mark Fogarty • 6 min read
State tax credit allocators had a glass-half-empty message for housing market analysts at their recent affordable housing summit. But in describing their current robust allocation rounds, the glass seemed half full as well.
Mark Olshaker • 7 min read
“We’ve developed, owned and operated affordable housing since 1994,” says Michael Costa of Align Finance Partners. “Now, as it has become progressively more difficult to produce housing for families and seniors of lesser means, we have created a new debt product to help finance the preservation and development of desperately needed affordable housing.”
Darryl Hicks • 11 min read
When Shaun Donovan became Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in 2009 he was determined to find new ways to preserve at-risk public and assisted-housing developments. So he turned to Patrick Costigan, a 30-year veteran of affordable housing and community development and a senior vice president at The Community Builders, a Boston-based nonprofit developer and property owner, to help redirect the effort.
Mark Olshaker • 8 min read
“I really like RAD projects,” declares Holly Bray, senior director of originations for Love Funding in Washington, DC. “You’re in the weeds, helping housing authorities take their housing stocks and making them great. There are a lot of things to figure out and a lot of coordination. But the end result is truly rewarding.”
Scott Beyer • 8 min read
Overall, Memphis is pretty old-school. As a city filled with rural migrants and defined by decades of slow growth, it maintains a dated and Southern feel.
Scott Beyer • 6 min read
In just two decades, “housing first” has turned from an academic idea into formal policy, becoming the default national strategy for curbing homelessness.
Mark Olshaker • 8 min read
Our vision of the American household is inaccurate and out dated.
Thom Amdur • 5 min read
On March 13, the National Low-Income Housing Coalition released a new report, “The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Rental Homes,” which finds that there is a shortage of 7.2 million affordable and available rental homes for extremely low income (ELI) households – a startling and sobering number.