Bendix Anderson • 6 min read
A new Courtyard Marriott Hotel in Muncie, Indiana offers more than a comfortable room and a good meal. Within its walls, people with disabilities are being trained for careers in hospitality.
Paul Smith • 5 min read
The affordable housing industry has long required multifamily developers and owners to be creative in structuring financing for their developments given a seemingly endless need for limited resources to create and preserve these properties.
Thom Amdur • 4 min read
At 30 years old, the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit has never looked better according to CohnReznick. The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program at Year 30: Recent Investment Performance (2013-2014), the national accounting firm’s look back at the performance of LIHTC properties over the program’s lifetime, as well as at recent trends across the portfolio, delivers good news to both for-profit and non-profit multifamily developers, as well as those who invest in their projects.
Joel Swerdlow • 1 min read
In 1975, when then Mayor William Schaefer was concerned about Baltimore’s reputation, he gathered four local ad agencies who put their heads together and decided to solve the problem by giving the town the nickname, Charm City.
Thom Amdur • 4 min read
In a little less than 11 months there will be a new President of the United States. With the full attention of the political blognescenti on the increasingly raucous Democratic and Republican primaries, it can be easy to ignore that the current Congress and President must still govern. With that in mind, on February 10th President Obama released his Fiscal-Year 2017 budget proposal.
Joel Swerdlow • 7 min read
The large map shows the city of Baltimore broken into block clusters, color-coded to designate variables such as home ownership and occupancy rates.
Thomas Amdur • 3 min read
This month TCA takes a deep dive into exciting and innovative strategies in the aging and senior housing space. The physical and lifestyle needs of baby boomers will continue to evolve and the affordable housing industry must develop plans to meet their requirements today and 20 years from now.
Marty Bell • 7 min read
As the adult child of the elderly, how can you be most comfortable that your parents’ needs are being addressed?
Not all situations for aging are equal. There are better ways.
Darryl Hicks • 11 min read
Rock ‘n’ roll icon Jimi Hendrix once said, “If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.”
Angela Boyd, a 34 year-old native of Kansas, who earned her undergraduate degree from Johns Hopkins and a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, is using the power of music to end America’s rental housing affordability crisis.
Mark Olshaker • 9 min read
“Tax credit is the major program designed for affordable housing. Unfortunately, it’s not designed for this.”
A. J. Johnson • 6 min read
The Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule issued by HUD last July requires recipients of federal housing and community development funding to foster more inclusive communities, promote equal access to community assets, and combat segregation and concentrated poverty.
Joel Swerdlow • 10 min read
Bright-colored images stenciled on walls await as you enter the Genesis community, a new affordable housing development in Washington, DC. These images exemplify what residents of the 27 affordable housing units define as community. Butterflies, birds, leaves, trees, stars and flowers—chosen to represent values like safety, trust, openness and togetherness— are interspersed with smiling images of the residents themselves.