Thom Amdur • 4 min read
Doctors don’t always diagnose the source of an ailment and as a result sometimes prescribe the wrong medicine.
Mark Fogarty • 7 min read
Workforce housing is on the minds of the elected officials of Montgomery County, MD even more than it normally is.
Mark Olshaker • 9 min read
The year 1962 saw the opening of the two most exhilarating architectural symbols of the dawning jet age: Dulles International Airport, serving Washington, DC in Chantilly, VA, and the Trans World Airlines Flight Center at Idlewild (now John F. Kennedy) Airport in Queens, NY.
Darryl Hicks • 9 min read
Headquartered in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park, KS, Cohen-Esrey has evolved over its 24-year history from being a small property manager to one of the Midwest’s largest real estate firms focused on historic rehabilitation and affordable housing development.
Mark Fogarty • 6 min read
Tax credit pricing has taken a hit, but not a mortal one, with the new 21 percent corporate tax rate, according to investors atttending a recent affordable housing summit held by market analysts.
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.