Tax Credit Advisor Article Archives

There are many considerations that go into the design of housing.

Global warming and climate change are wreaking havoc on our health, our livelihoods and our housing.

For nearly four decades, the Low Income Housing Tax Credit has fueled much of America’s affordable housing construction.

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.

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.

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.

One of the curious things about the enormous Butler Brothers warehouse in St. Louis is that the first world chess championship was held on its site in 1886, about 20 years before the 735,000-square-foot block-long building was built and became one of the largest storage spaces ever constructed in America.

Live, Work, Create Under One Roof

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.

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.