Tax Credit Advisor Article Archives

As fall blows in, we are nearing the end of our first full year back in person.

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) provided $3.5 billion for the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP); a ten-times increase that is to be spent in the next five years.

The Danube Apartments are a keeper.

The goal of a Low Income Housing Tax Credit partnership is not to negotiate and execute the world’s most perfect partnership agreement.

Market feasibility studies are not just a required step in federal and state financing programs, but an invaluable tool to ensure that affordable housing projects are marketable.

Fall, for me, evokes the feeling of the beginning of the end. The leaves dazzle us with one final burst of color before winter sets in. Congress starts a new fiscal year and will eventually fund the government. Cue the steady drip-drip-drip of holidays cresting with New Year’s Eve and year-end tax bills. I hope you were able to unplug for a bit before the fall heats up with Low Income Housing Tax Credit applications due, conferences to attend and an election leading into a legislative sprint to clear the decks for the next Congress. 

Increasing interest rates impact virtually all investments since they present higher borrowing costs, falling prices for existing bonds and possibly lower earnings for publicly traded companies.

In 1937, an upstart 27-year-old British economist published a short essay whose modest title, The Nature of the Firm, has newfound resonance in our post-hybrid information work world.

Over the past three years, a new financing product has paved the way for converting privately owned apartment complexes to 100 percent public, governmental ownership with no equity contribution.

Low Income Housing Tax Credit projects are always looking to make an impact. A four percent project in northeast Oregon underway is seeking to make a huge impact – to put a big dent into the affordable housing need in its area.

Capital Impact Partners is an Arlington, VA-based nonprofit created by an Act of Congress to facilitate the development of cooperative housing.

Have you ever had that feeling where something you are newly knowledgeable about seems to suddenly be everywhere?