Christian Robin • 7 min read
If you’re reading an issue of Tax Credit Advisor, it’s probably safe to assume you have noticed a drop in equity pricing since the election.
Bendix Anderson • 10 min read
The end of 2016 brought both good news and bad news for affordable housing developer the Pacific Companies.
Scott Beyer • 5 min read
If U.S. Senators weigh in on America’s housing crisis, they need to understand the complexity of the issues. Of course we need more affordable housing almost everywhere, but the problems go beyond that.
Scott Beyer • 6 min read
Walk by any construction site in a major U.S. city, and you’ll hear one of the great instruments in the symphony that is modern urban American life. It seems that no matter the day or the hour—it could be 6am on a Sunday—these unfinished structures will emanate with the cacophony of boots stomping, saws cutting and nail guns popping.
Mark Olshaker • 11 min read
Though it hearkens back to a different time, a different leader and a different struggle, the former defense secretary’s comment during a Pentagon news briefing pretty much portrays the current industry knowledge of the Trump Administration’s intentions and goals regarding affordable housing, urban regeneration, historic rehabilitation and the tax credit and other government programs that support them. The proposed budget and tax reform represent two distinct but interrelated challenges.
Jessica Hoefer • 2 min read
One paramount aspect of the U.S. political system is accessibility to lawmakers. However, it’s more complicated than calling up Representatives, or Senators and voicing concern.
Thom Amdur • 4 min read
Since HUD Secretary Ben Carson has taken the oath of office, he has spent much of his time on a national listening tour, thus far visiting affordable housing projects and stakeholders in Michigan, Florida and Texas.
Bendix Anderson • 11 min read
Public housing is threatened – again – with deep funding cuts in the latest proposed federal budget, released in March by President Donald Trump.
Darryl Hicks • 10 min read
Among the many innovative housing programs devised by the Obama Administration was the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD), which Congress authorized in 2012 to test a new way of meeting the large and growing capital improvement needs of the nation’s aging public housing stock.
Christian Robin • 4 min read
The Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program began in 2012 with the purpose of addressing a $26 billion backlog of deferred maintenance for public housing.
Ravi Malhotra • 2 min read
We all know the PHA program faces approximately $27 billion shortfall for capital improvements. HUD’s Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program was designed in large part to finance these capital improvements.
Scott Beyer • 6 min read
San Francisco, CA—Before entering San Francisco, I’d heard that high housing costs were forcing even six-figure-salary techies into cramped apartments.