Subsidizing the Middle: Policies, Trade-Offs and Costs of Addressing Middle-Income Affordability Challenges
Report Analyzes Impact of Subsidizing Housing for Middle-Income Earners
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.
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Case Study
Affordable Housing for Intergenerational, Multigenerational Families
Mark Fogarty • 6 min read
A big societal change in recent years has been that many grandparents are bringing up grandchildren. Now there are signs that affordable housing is starting to target these often low-income intergenerational or multigenerational families.
Case Study
Winds of Change Repurpose Old Aeolian Factory in CT
Mark Fogarty • 6 min read
Player pianos always have had an aura of magic as beautiful music emerges from them seemingly without human assistance. Now, some industrial magic is set to transform an old player piano factory in the north end of Meriden into beautiful multifamily units.
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Leveraging NMTC and GGRF
A Synergistic Approach to Community Development
Jennifer Kirkley & Regan St. Pierre • 6 min read
Increasingly, climate solutions are central to preserving and creating wealth and well-being in communities across the country.
What Can Be Done About Insurance?
NH&RA Panelists Explore Ways to Rein in High Insurance Costs for Affordable Housing
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?”
Rainbow Housing: Transforming Resident Services from Within
Abram Mamet • 9 min read
For most organizations, radical shifts in market strategy and company makeup generally come after crises. For Rainbow Housing Assistance Corporation (Rainbow), that radical shift came not as a result of significant challenges, but as a way to leverage successful internal practices to better serve the affordable housing industry.
Affordable Multifamily Goes Electric in the Empire State
A Major Public Housing Renovation in Buffalo Proceeds Under New York’s New All-Electric Construction Mandate
Ethan Finlan • 11 min read
In 2022, New York State announced that it would require new and rebuilt high-rise buildings to be fully electric-powered to meet emissions reduction goals.
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Monthly Columns
Legally Speaking
The Technical Aspects of Closing a Faircloth-to-RAD Deal
Bennett Applegate • 8 min read
As several of the early Faircloth-to-RAD projects are completing their conversion to the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program, practitioners are also starting to better understand the legal “nuts and bolts” of how to close a transaction and ensure a smooth transition from Faircloth-to-RAD.
The Guru Is In
Battalions of Sorrows: Part 2, The Curse of Double Bottom Line
David A. Smith • 6 min read
As shown in last month’s Part 1, the economically botched management of the 2020-2021 COVID pandemic precipitated the inevitable return of inflation. Though the household damage was palliated by enormous federal spending across two administrations, that cumulative largesse has now assured us that we will worry about inflation and deal with its consequences for at least the rest of the decade.