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Since February 2022, Adhi Nagraj has served as the chief development officer at St. Louis-based McCormack Baron Salazar—one of the nation’s leading for-profit developers, property managers and asset managers—overseeing all project management activities nationwide.

In 1602, clever Amsterdam burghers invented the ancestor of today’s limited partnerships, the Dutch East India Company.

Mixed-income projects transform neighborhoods, decrease poverty and reduce exposure to environmental hazards.

Bank of America Community Development Banking (CDB) provided $7.85 billion in loans, tax credit equity investments and other real estate development solutions in 2022, surpassing the previous record of $6.7 billion generated in 2021.

As financing of affordable housing projects becomes more complex, ironing out the tax issues can make you appreciate today’s casual dress code.

Affordable housing is a byproduct of a pluralistic democratic society; more than that, it is a goal whose pursuit creates and strengthens a pluralistic democratic society in ways that would gladden the heart of Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, Comte de Tocqueville.

Last month, the Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act was reintroduced in both the House and Senate as H.R. 3238 and S. 1557.

Federal tax credits under the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program continue to be one of the most important tools for developing affordable housing in the country.

Embedded within the real estate adage, “Location, Location, Location,” is the all-important, yet oft-overlooked zoning.

A simple principle can have far-reaching consequences when its consistent application exposes policy or outcome inconsistencies taken for granted for decades.

Ralph M. Perrey has served as the executive director of the Tennessee Housing Development Agency (THDA) since November 2012.

The Industrial Revolution changed the landscape of economics and society, not once, not twice, but three times.