Pamela Martineau • 7 min read
Launched in 2010, the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Choice Neighborhoods program has been transforming communities across the nation through Planning and Implementation Grants that breathe new life into distressed affordable housing projects and surrounding neighborhoods.
Abram Mamet • 7 min read
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently opened applications for its new Green and Resilient Retrofit Program (GRRP), a multi-billion-dollar initiative meant for deep green improvements to certain HUD contract properties.
Ravi Malhotra • 3 min read
Since early 2023, ICAST’s articles have covered the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and their potential impacts on multifamily affordable housing.
Ravi Malhotra • 3 min read
More and more states have regulations and mandates requiring multifamily affordable housing properties to decarbonize (i.e., replace the use of natural gas, oil or propane with electricity).
Abram Mamet • 7 min read
In theory, building codes, zoning and urban planning make up the engine that drives municipal growth. Born from progressive-minded responses to early 20th-century public health crises, the first wave of these defined zoning codes was passed starting around 1908.
Pamela Martineau • 8 min read
Decades ago, people often equated standardized design in affordable housing with cookie-cutter, identical buildings and individual units with the same layouts and color schemes.
Nushin Huq • 10 min read
Many American adults, about 60 percent, have experienced trauma, but the practice of considering the effects of trauma on affordable housing residents and staff is relatively recent.
Abram Mamet • 8 min read
Today’s cities generally emphasize cohesion and citywide vibrancy, and many municipalities are focused on the creation of mixed-income communities.
Ravi Malhotra • 3 min read
As demand for electric vehicles (EVs) intensifies, multifamily owners and operators are increasingly forced to explore their EV charging options.
Pamela Martineau • 8 min read
Income averaging allows affordable housing developers to expand the range of people on the income strata who are eligible to live in affordable communities, while also helping projects pencil out.
Nushin Huq • 7 min read
As federal regulators continue to release implementation guidelines for the Build America, Buy America Act (BABAA), the new law aimed to increase domestic manufacturing, the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced its decision to phase implementation of the requirements.
Abram Mamet • 9 min read
For at least the last decade, managers of market-rate multifamily units have widely incorporated technology into their properties.