Pamela Martineau Author Archives

In a study that provides key insights for housing leaders nationwide, researchers in Indiana recently released an in-depth study detailing the “silver tsunami” of senior Hoosiers in need of housing modified for age-related needs.

Seeking to remove barriers to creating and preserving affordable housing, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is currently weighing applications for $100 million in grant funding to communities throughout the nation for its second round of PRO Housing, Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing, grant program.

For 33 years, Bank of America has worked to develop the next generation of affordable housing leaders through its Affordable Housing Challenge, a competition in which students design an affordable housing project from concept through funding and developable plan.

As the United States struggles with a severe housing crisis, investing in affordable housing preservation offers stable, risk-adjusted returns that can produce positive social outcomes.

Meet with your underwriter in person, provide as much data as possible on relevant inspections and offer photos of improvements you’ve made to affordable housing properties. These were just a few of the tips offered at the National Housing & Rehabilitation Association’s Summer Institute Panel: “What Can Be Done About Insurance?”

As an increasing number of cities and states develop programs to subsidize housing for middle-income earners, policymakers must ensure that middle-income programs don’t take vital resources from low-income housing programs.

Forget Siri. Colleen, Elise, Penny and Kelsey are the AI personas that property managers are using to manage tenants’ and housing applicants’ queries.

Nearly 60 percent of surveyed voters cite the lowered cost of housing and rent as key factors that would improve their lives, yet say those same issues are at the near bottom—12th—of issues they hear politicians speak of.

What does the future hold for interest rates? Many real estate developers, consumers and economists are weighing that question as mortgage interest rates hover at roughly seven percent, more than double what they were during the height of the pandemic.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has introduced new guidance and rule changes intended to bolster the nation’s supply of housing, especially affordable housing. 

Section 8 property owners who refinanced their debt through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Mark-to-Market program, mainly in the late 1990s through early 2000s, may qualify for budget-based rent adjustments under a new program launched this year by HUD.

Office vacancies throughout the nation have reached a 30-year high and the country is amid an affordable housing crisis. These dual inflection points have increased housing advocates’ focus on conversions of commercial real estate into housing and encouraged federal and local governments to assist in the transformations.