Case Studies Archives

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The Stone Mill in Lawrence, MA

6 min read

They built the great mills along the Merrimack River in Lowell and Lawrence, MA to last.

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The Montage in San Antonio

6 min read

There are two ways an affordable housing manager can run a more efficient shop.

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LIHTC Need in Indian Country May Be 25,000 Units

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Tribal LIHTC Developers Leading the Way

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Energy Retrofits in New Mexico

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Residents at three public housing authority properties for Santa Fe County in New Mexico are happy to see solar panels installed on the roofs of their projects, as the arrays also come with 16 additional upgrades for the tenants.

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Echo Valley’s “Community” Solar Program

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At first glance, there is nothing out of the ordinary about the solar panels on the roofs of the ten buildings that make up the Echo Valley housing project in West Warwick, RI.

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Case Study: Massachusetts Projects Cultivate Resident-Centered Communities

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While for-profit and nonprofit affordable housing developers can have different approaches to tax credit projects, there is one thing they generally agree on—the need for high-quality resident services for their populations.

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The Upper Post Flats of Minneapolis, MN

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It would make a good story if someone who moves into the renovated Upper Post Flats at historic Fort Snelling in Minneapolis had lived in those barracks on active-duty decades ago.

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Paxton Apartments in Washington, DC

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DC Bond Deal Takes Advantage of Inverted Yield Curve

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Fisher Body Auto Factory Transforms into Fisher 21 Lofts

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Detroit Eyesore to Become 433 Units of Housing in Adaptive Reuse

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Stone Bridge Lofts in Goodlettsville, TN

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New models of employer-assisted housing are emerging, as exemplified by the Amazon Housing Equity Fund’s investments in developing housing near its major employment hubs, in Seattle, Nashville and Arlington, VA to give access to quality affordable and workforce housing.

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Alta Verde Workforce in Breckenridge, CO

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The “Alta” in the Alta Verde Workforce development in Breckenridge, CO, means “high.”

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Cathedrals, Miracles and the Spirit of Frederick Douglass

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It was while visiting a low-income high rise in New York City’s Lower East Side neighborhood 20 years ago that I got the thought that some affordable housing towers are secular cathedrals.

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