Tax Credit Advisor Article Archives

Welcome to our annual Green issue, one of our favorite issues each year. Why?

This month’s TCA explores an area of transaction opportunity that I am particularly passionate about. Energy efficiency and sustainability is a rare area where mission, policy, and business opportunity should align, yet there continue to be misconceptions, split incentives and other barriers that sometimes make it difficult to achieve utility efficient outcomes in the real world.

The treatment of military veterans has been an emotionally fraught and politically loaded topic since the beginning of the nation. It took until 1818 – 35 years after the British surrender – for Revolutionary War veterans to receive a pension.

Jeff Brodsky graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and moved to Detroit to work for the Ford Motor Company, just as the Middle East oil crisis hit in 1978.

The Novogradac Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Showcase, released in January to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the federal drive to encourage affordable housing, shows the LIHTC program in action by profiling 72 LIHTC developments in 34 states and territories.

In central London, on the pavement at every street corner, every traffic light, every pedestrian crossing, are painted two words: LOOK RIGHT. They exist to protect us against the instincts most of us have spent a lifetime acquiring, instincts that kick in when we are inattentive, in a hurry, tired or under stress.

We have two options,” an official from the Housing Authority of Baltimore City (HABC) tells a meeting of several hundred people who live in an HABC-owned building.

A new Courtyard Marriott Hotel in Muncie, Indiana offers more than a comfortable room and a good meal. Within its walls, people with disabilities are being trained for careers in hospitality.

The affordable housing industry has long required multifamily developers and owners to be creative in structuring financing for their developments given a seemingly endless need for limited resources to create and preserve these properties.

At 30 years old, the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit has never looked better according to CohnReznick. The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program at Year 30: Recent Investment Performance (2013-2014), the national accounting firm’s look back at the performance of LIHTC properties over the program’s lifetime, as well as at recent trends across the portfolio, delivers good news to both for-profit and non-profit multifamily developers, as well as those who invest in their projects.

In 1975, when then Mayor William Schaefer was concerned about Baltimore’s reputation, he gathered four local ad agencies who put their heads together and decided to solve the problem by giving the town the nickname, Charm City.

In a little less than 11 months there will be a new President of the United States. With the full attention of the political blognescenti on the increasingly raucous Democratic and Republican primaries, it can be easy to ignore that the current Congress and President must still govern. With that in mind, on February 10th President Obama released his Fiscal-Year 2017 budget proposal.