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.
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.