Mark Fogarty • 6 min read
A building dedicated to helping boys in Worcester, MA, for decades, is undergoing an adaptive reuse that will turn it into affordable housing for seniors.
Pamela Martineau • 5 min read
Seeking to remove barriers to creating and preserving affordable housing, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is currently weighing applications for $100 million in grant funding to communities throughout the nation for its second round of PRO Housing, Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing, grant program.
Abram Mamet • 10 min read
In recent years, developers have begun to see the many churches, mosques, synagogues and other landholding faith organizations that dot the United States as ideal partners in the struggle to control the affordable housing crisis.
Pamela Martineau • 7 min read
For 33 years, Bank of America has worked to develop the next generation of affordable housing leaders through its Affordable Housing Challenge, a competition in which students design an affordable housing project from concept through funding and developable plan.
Ethan Finlan • 9 min read
Throughout the early 2020s, costly delays have hammered multifamily projects thanks to supply chain, labor force and interest rate challenges.
Mark Shelburne • 7 min read
Making the numbers work for a Federal Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) transaction can be challenging, or sometimes even impossible.
David A. Smith • 5 min read
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.
Mark Fogarty • 6 min read
A 2023 Emerging Developer program at the Indiana Housing & Community Development Authority (IHCDA) has hit paydirt as a 36-unit supportive housing development fostered by IHCDA funds a first-time developer who has broken ground and looks to finish construction by the middle of next year.
Ravi Malhotra • 3 min read
The Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law are in their second and third years, respectively. $480 billion of BIL, and most of the approximate $390 billion of IRA clean energy funds have now been awarded from the Feds to states, municipalities and other entities.
Mark Fogarty • 7 min read
The Green and Resilient Retrofit Program (GRRP), authorized by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), continues to ramp up now that the first transactions have closed.
Pamela Martineau • 5 min read
As the United States struggles with a severe housing crisis, investing in affordable housing preservation offers stable, risk-adjusted returns that can produce positive social outcomes.
Jennifer Kirkley & Regan St. Pierre • 6 min read
Increasingly, climate solutions are central to preserving and creating wealth and well-being in communities across the country.