Riding to Success Partnering With Transit Agencies Is Key for Florida Developer

By Caitlin Jones
January 17, 2011 1 min read

Tax Credit Advisor, January 2011: Partnering with transit agencies has been key to Matthew Greer’s success in developing transit-oriented affordable rental housing projects in South Florida. These types of developments have utilized non-traditional financing and readily attract tenants, making them highly competitive in the local apartment market.

“We’ve done over a thousand units of strictly transit-oriented development – development on a publicly owned transit-funded piece of land, directly connected to a rapid transit site,” says Greer, CEO of Miami-based Carlisle Development Group, the largest affordable housing developer in Florida. “I think we’re one of the leaders in the country, by that metric.”

The thousand-plus units have been in low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) properties, primarily in Miami-Dade County, which includes the city of Miami.

Breaking Ground

Jennifer Leimaile Ho, Minnesota Housing Commissioner and Incoming Chair of National Council of State Housing Agencies

Pamela Martineau • December 1, 2024 10 min read

Earlier this fall, Jennifer Leimaile Ho was elected chair of the National Council of State Housing Agencies’ (NCSHA) 2025 Board of Directors. Ho is the Commissioner of Minnesota Housing, having been appointed by Governor Tim Walz in January 2019 and reappointed in 2023.

“Business as Usual”

Leaders in Equity Express Optimism Despite an Uncertain Future

Abram Mamet • December 1, 2024 9 min read

Any outside observer may assume some unease amongst the low-income housing industry. Buffeted on the one hand by residual stressors from the COVID-19 pandemic and on the other by the uncertain prospects of an incoming federal administration keen on cutting spending and shrinking government programs, the affordable housing landscape is experiencing an inflection point.

NCSHA Recognizes Stand-Out Affordable Housing Programs and Initiatives

Pamela Martineau • December 1, 2024 7 min read

This fall, the National Council of State Housing Agencies (NCSHA) recognized 17 programs offered by state housing finance agencies across the nation that creatively developed tools to tackle their communities’ affordable housing challenges.