Tax Credit Advisor Article Archives

Three and a half years after it began with the best of intentions, state-level programs and laws intended to help residents avoid eviction have cost many of the country’s largest, best and most ethical affordable housing owners upwards of half a billion dollars – and the total keeps rising. 

Increasingly, climate solutions are central to preserving and creating wealth and well-being in communities across the country.

A big societal change in recent years has been that many grandparents are bringing up grandchildren. Now there are signs that affordable housing is starting to target these often low-income intergenerational or multigenerational families.

Meet with your underwriter in person, provide as much data as possible on relevant inspections and offer photos of improvements you’ve made to affordable housing properties. These were just a few of the tips offered at the National Housing & Rehabilitation Association’s Summer Institute Panel: “What Can Be Done About Insurance?”

For most organizations, radical shifts in market strategy and company makeup generally come after crises. For Rainbow Housing Assistance Corporation (Rainbow), that radical shift came not as a result of significant challenges, but as a way to leverage successful internal practices to better serve the affordable housing industry.

In 2022, New York State announced that it would require new and rebuilt high-rise buildings to be fully electric-powered to meet emissions reduction goals.

As shown in last month’s Part 1, the economically botched management of the 2020-2021 COVID pandemic precipitated the inevitable return of inflation. Though the household damage was palliated by enormous federal spending across two administrations, that cumulative largesse has now assured us that we will worry about inflation and deal with its consequences for at least the rest of the decade.

Player pianos always have had an aura of magic as beautiful music emerges from them seemingly without human assistance. Now, some industrial magic is set to transform an old player piano factory in the north end of Meriden into beautiful multifamily units.

As several of the early Faircloth-to-RAD projects are completing their conversion to the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program, practitioners are also starting to better understand the legal “nuts and bolts” of how to close a transaction and ensure a smooth transition from Faircloth-to-RAD.

As an increasing number of cities and states develop programs to subsidize housing for middle-income earners, policymakers must ensure that middle-income programs don’t take vital resources from low-income housing programs.

In recent years, owners and developers of low-income housing have turned to the Historic Tax Credit program as another key source of funding for projects looking to preserve or create affordable apartments in historic buildings.

Sometimes a building’s name is more than just a placeholder, revealing the passion and intention behind the project. That is certainly the case with The Beacon, which is intended to be a beacon to its East Harlem, NY neighborhood.