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Tax Credit Advisor, September 2011: Web-based and installed software products make it easier to manage all aspects of affordable housing properties, as well as for tasks required under the new markets tax credit program.
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Tax Credit Advisor, September 2011: The Obama Administration’s Rental Policy Working Group has released 11 papers proposing ways to better align federal policies, regulations, and procedures governing the development, financing, operation, and compliance monitoring of affordable rental housing properties.
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Tax Credit Advisor, September 2011: A housing authority in Western Illinois is developing a mixed-use new markets tax credit (NMTC) project in a pioneering transaction that could serve as a model for others.
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Imagine that we are all drunks, circling our own street lamps. That will tell you the state of energy performance data and energy conservation decision-making today.
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Tax Credit Advisor, September 2011: While the early August downgrades by Standard & Poor’s of the U.S. and GSEs has created some uncertainties about possible impacts that may yet play out, debt financing for affordable multifamily rental housing is still readily available on attractive rates and terms.
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Tax Credit Advisor, September 2011: Pricing seems to have stabilized above one dollar per dollar of tax credit for federal historic rehabilitation tax credits, and has risen for federal new markets tax credits, according to industry sources.
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Tax Credit Advisor, September 2011: The types of non-compliance that experts are seeing in low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) properties these days really haven’t changed much.
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Tax Credit Advisor, August 2011: For Portland, Me.-based developer Laura Burns, President and CEO of The Eagle Point Companies, controlling operating costs is critical to her firm’s successful management of its affordable apartment properties.
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Tax Credit Advisor, August 2011: Resyndications of existing low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) projects with new tax credits are still occurring, but the pattern is different from a few years back and there are some challenges today, according to executive Stephen Roger of New York-based syndicator Centerline Capital Group.
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Tax Credit Advisor, August 2011: Partnering with another sponsor to develop an affordable rental housing project can be advantageous to a for-profit or nonprofit developer. So, too, can joint venture arrangements by for-profit developers with public housing authorities.
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Tax Credit Advisor, August 2011: As a result of the recent downturn in the low-income housing tax credit market, we and other affordable housing professionals are operating in a new environment: one that focuses foremost on the fundamentals while dealing with operational challenges.
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Tax Credit Advisor, August 2011: Many syndicators are nervously wondering whether they will be able to retain so-called economic or “non-CRA” investors in their corporate low-income housing tax credit funds going forward. given the continuing decline in tax credit yields to investors.