Darryl Hicks Author Archives

Brian Goeken is widely regarded as one of the nation’s top historic preservation experts with a background spanning over 25 years in urban planning, architecture, economic development and urban design.

For much of his professional career, Richard Burns invested institutional capital in large commercial and multifamily real estate projects.

Asset managers make sure affordable housing produces the expected benefits. It’s the job of the asset manager to maximize the performance of affordable housing assets by delivering tax credits to investors, debt service to lenders, cash flow to owners and equity partners, compliance to regulators and quality housing to residents.

Exciting things are happening in Oregon. The Beaver State may well now be the model for a progressive push for affordable housing.

Boston’s vibrant neighborhoods, cultural assets, productive workforce, innovative businesses and renowned hospitals and universities have spurred an era of rapid growth.

Headquartered in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park, KS, Cohen-Esrey has evolved over its 24-year history from being a small property manager to one of the Midwest’s largest real estate firms focused on historic rehabilitation and affordable housing development.

When Shaun Donovan became Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in 2009 he was determined to find new ways to preserve at-risk public and assisted-housing developments. So he turned to Patrick Costigan, a 30-year veteran of affordable housing and community development and a senior vice president at The Community Builders, a Boston-based nonprofit developer and property owner, to help redirect the effort.

Preservationists were jubilant when they learned that the Federal Historic Tax Credit (HTC) would be saved from the chopping block in the final version of the tax reform bill negotiated by Congress and signed into law by President Trump in December.

Volunteers of America, headquartered in Alexandria, VA, has dedicated itself to improving the lives of America’s most susceptible citizens: veterans, low-income seniors, children and families, the homeless, those with intellectual disabilities, those recovering from addiction and the formerly incarcerated.

Founded in 1973 by Michael J. Levitt, The Michaels Organization, Marlton, NJ, ranks among the nation’s largest private-sector developers and owners of affordable housing.

Inspired by the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King and Senator Robert Kennedy in 1968, Robert Davenport has spent most of his life examining the root causes of racism and poverty in America and advocating for policies that encourage positive change in America’s most distressed cities and neighborhoods.

Jeffrey Woda grew up in rural eastern Ohio, separated from Wheeling, WV by the Ohio River, the son and grandson of homebuilding contractors. He left the area to become a CPA and was employed for a time by Ernst and Young, working with construction companies, financial institutions and other corporate entities.