David A. Davenport • 7 min read
Created by the Tax Reform Act of 1986, the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) has become the most important resource for creating and maintaining affordable housing in the United States.
Thom Amdur • 3 min read
Affordable housing developers take on many risks during their day-to-day business. There is construction risk, interest rate risk, headline risk and, as we are experiencing more and more, political risk.
Scott Beyer • 6 min read
In 2015, San Francisco approved the largest conversion of government housing into private ownership in American history.
Marty Bell • 9 min read
In 2011, on a Labor Day break from her job as the State of Washington’s junior Senator, Maria Cantwell joined a party of five to climb 14,000 feet to the peak of Grand Teton.
Scott Beyer • 6 min read
America’s burgeoning pro-housing movement has many layers, and I recently witnessed one of them firsthand on a rare rainy night in Los Angeles.
Darryl Hicks • 10 min read
Imagine the confusion if the bosses of the company you worked for changed every four to eight years, while most of the rest of the staff remained.
Scott Beyer • 6 min read
Los Angeles, CA—Los Angeles is, by some metrics, America’s homeless capital. It has a county-wide nightly unsheltered population of roughly 82,000, including 13,000 who are chronically homeless.
Mark Olshaker • 10 min read
Each subsequent presidential administration brings a new and differing set of priorities. With the current one clearly focused on lowering taxes, building infrastructure, fighting terrorism and everything having to do with immigration, affordable housing is not likely to reach the top of the to-do list.
Marty Bell • 12 min read
On stage to debate for the Republican nomination for president were 16 people who thought they had to outshout each other—and one who obviously wanted to be the softest. Many needed to out-insult each other—and one felt compelled to show respect.
Thom Amdur • 7 min read
On a cold day last December, I stood on the roof of the Washington, DC building where the Nixon Peabody law firm has its DC headquarters with partners Jeff Lesk and Herb Stevens gazing at the expanse of empty roofs and imagining the possibilities.
Bendix Anderson • 6 min read
A bulldozer tore into the brown bricks of Madison Park North apartments on December 9.
Thom Amdur • 4 min read
It is the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 45th President of the United States. As expected, he and the Republican-led 115th Congress are already shaking things up across the board and healthcare reform is front and center.