Mark Olshaker • 10 min read
Telehealth has become a widely accepted and important component of the overall healthcare structure in the United States.
Christian Robin • 2 min read
For those developers interested in implementing water or energy improvements during rehabilitation, Fannie Mae’s Green Regards and Freddie Mac’s Green Advantage offer innovative new funding options. With interest savings in the neighborhood of 13 – 39 basis points off of a fixed rate loan, these products are in high demand.
Darryl Hicks • 9 min read
Josefina Carbonell intended to follow her father’s footsteps and become a civil engineer or accountant. Instead, her career path took a different turn as she became actively involved as a United Way volunteer helping elderly Hispanics acclimate to their new lives in the United States.
Mark Olshaker • 9 min read
Sustaining Seniors Aging in Place Program (SSAIP) is an innovative program in Charleston, SC, that includes Telehealth/Telemedicine, a food pantry that has delivered more than 400,000 free meals, accessible transportation and a community garden among its offerings. It is all part of the pioneering approach to senior affordable housing instituted by that southern city’s Humanities Foundation.
Bendix Anderson • 7 min read
Substandard, unaffordable housing can damage the health of its residents – potentially causing problems like asthma or exacerbating ailments like hypertension.
Bendix Anderson • 6 min read
Six giant health companies are contributing millions of dollars to help build housing in Portland, OR.
Darryl Hicks & Christian Robin • 3 min read
$100 million in new funding On November 29, 2016, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that New York became the first state to secure international certification of nearly $100 million in “Green Bonds” to be used for the development of affordable housing that has a positive impact on the environment and climate. The housing bonds were certified […]
Mark Olshaker • 12 min read
“In the affordable housing industry, there has long been a recognition that one size doesn’t fit all,” declares Bill Whitman, owner of New Community Partners and a partner at Somerset Development Company in Washington, DC.
Christian Robin • 7 min read
Last June, attorney Wade Norris reported in these pages on the increasing demand for tax-exempt, multifamily bonds throughout the United States and noting that several states were burning through volume cap.
Darryl Hicks • 9 min read
James Rubin has one of the most interesting public sector jobs in the country. Since May 2015, Rubin has served as Commissioner of New York State Homes and Community Renewal, the top leadership position for the state’s many housing and community development agencies.
John W. Gahan III • 10 min read
Larry Lawyer was exhausted. He had spent all day at Insatiable Investor’s annual conference in Jackson Hole. The conference was abuzz with speculation on the newly elected president. Would there be corporate tax reform and would that kill the tax credit investment market? Yields for investors were already at historic lows.
Douglas P. Koch • 9 min read
As the organizational structure of the affordable housing and community development finance industry matures, financial intermediaries, investors and developers are fashioning new resources and methods for accomplishing their goals. With an aging Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) and HUD property inventory, a wide variety of property acquisition, property recycling and organizational capitalization and revitalization needs materialized.