Marty Bell Author Archives

This is our annual Historic Tax Credit issue. But this year we’ve expanded the subject a bit to look at using historic credits as a part of multi-credit deals.

There are many problems we are faced with as a society that we may not currently have the means to solve, particularly those that are nature-driven (i.e., dementia, global warming, storms). But we can solve the housing shortage.

Our headline this month—“A New Era for the LIHTC Program”—might well have you scratching your head and wondering what the heck are they talking about.

In addition to CEO and president of Family Scholar House, Cathe Dykstra’s title includes Chief Possibility Officer.

In the summer following my freshman year at college, I had the privilege of interning in an over-the-counter trading room on Wall Street.

It sometimes seems as if the United States has more than just one country within its boundaries. The divide can appear so vast, you wonder if one government can fuse it.

For those of us, no matter our leanings, who are frustrated by the lack of functionality of government, whose taxes have shot up significantly as a result of tax reform, whose personal or business healthcare costs continue to rise, this is an issue about a federal program that, by all appearances, is working.

Sometimes controversy can boost sales. A controversy that shows up repeatedly on your television and in your emails almost daily may irk you, but at the same time it pushes the issue front and center in all of our very crowded minds.

All aboard! Welcome, and we’re glad you’re joining us today for this grand tour of affordable housing situations and civic innovations in cities all across our country.

Is it bragging if I open this issue by declaring it a win-win? Actually, it’s a win-win-win-win—for affordable housing management, for their residents, for government and for our readers.

I bonded with Ballotpedia.

Hey, all you folks out there oozing over OZones: remember New Markets Tax Credits?