Monthly Columns Archives

For 35 years, Denise B. Muha has served as the executive director of the National Leased Housing Association (NLHA), one of the oldest affordable housing advocacy organizations in Washington, DC.

Developers across the country are discussing Florida’s new law, the Live Local Act (the Act). Many developers are discussing the Act’s zoning preemption provisions and its Missing Middle property tax exemption, which provide incentives for renting to individuals or families with incomes at or below 120 percent of the median annual adjusted gross income (AMI) for households within the metropolitan statistical area, or within the county in which such person or family resides.

Homelessness is not a housing problem; homelessness is a symptom and byproduct of a larger underlying problem—the loss of ability to live independently—whose escalating scale exposes the collapse of an overloaded and anachronistic urban behavioral-health infrastructure.

My housing-related book list has been growing and I’m excited to make some headway this August.

In the 1930s, the programs and agencies that eventually became the Department of Housing and Urban Development were focused on construction to alleviate the housing hardships caused by the Great Depression.

Succession is not just a challenge of the C-suite.

Last month, I had the privilege of attending the Innovative Housing Showcase, which was co-hosted by the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the National Association of Home Builders.

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.