The Focus in Austin Is Green

By Caitlin Jones
February 22, 2011 1 min read

Tax Credit Advisor, February 2011: In Austin, Texas, Foundation Communities is developing a 150-unit low-income housing tax credit project that will have many green features, and is retrofitting its existing apartment properties to make them more energy efficient.

The new LIHTC project, M Station, will be a quarter-mile from the Martin Luther King Station on the new commuter rail line that opened last spring, and is located in a city-designated transit-oriented district.

“We’re a nonprofit affordable housing provider based here in Austin,” says Sunshine Mathon, Design + Development Director with Foundation Communities. “The majority of our properties are here in Austin but, we do have three properties in the Dallas-Fort Worth area as well. All told, we own and operate in the ballpark of 2,200, soon about 2,500, rental apartments.”

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.