Pamela Martineau • 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.
Pamela Martineau • 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.
Pamela Martineau • 6 min read
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.
Pamela Martineau • 5 min read
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.
Pamela Martineau • 7 min read
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.
Pamela Martineau • 5 min read
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.
Pamela Martineau • 6 min read
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?”
Pamela Martineau • 5 min read
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.
Pamela Martineau • 6 min read
Forget Siri. Colleen, Elise, Penny and Kelsey are the AI personas that property managers are using to manage tenants’ and housing applicants’ queries.
Pamela Martineau • 4 min read
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.
Pamela Martineau • 7 min read
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.
Pamela Martineau • 5 min read
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.