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As the Trump administration implements significant changes to the funding and oversight of LIHTCs and other incentives, housing sector professionals are increasingly looking to state-level LIHTCs as stable incentives for encouraging growth and expanding affordability.

Mixed-use LIHTC developments featuring a ground-floor commercial space offer developers a potentially powerful financial tool.

Housing supply and affordability have now been recognized as significant problems throughout the nation. The issues are vast and complex, and the solutions are expensive and controversial. The financial and political implications are widely recognized by both parties in urban, suburban, and rural communities to an extent not seen in decades.

Housing advocates have sought tweaks to the LIHTC program that intend to bolster the number of affordable units produced each year. Those advocates succeeded in their efforts, as two essential changes were codified as part of the sprawling One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1).

Syndicators and investors are increasingly hiring third-party reviewers to ensure that various aspects of a project—from accessibility compliance to architectural plans—meet standards.

Five years after COVID disrupted real estate markets, America’s highest real estate priority is housing, and in particular, affordable housing.

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming affordable housing through tools like large language models and predictive analytics, though adoption varies and concerns remain.

Though the LIHTC has long been a bedrock of the affordable housing industry, developers are always searching for additional products to get deals done. One such promising vehicle is preservation equity.

Over the past several years, HUD has been rolling out updates to Sections 102 and 204 of the Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act (HOTMA), pushing back deadlines that require affordable housing property managers to pivot in their tenant certification practices.

Affordable housing is playing a key role in keeping Philadelphia’s Chinatown thriving with a brand new senior housing project that is bringing more affordable units online while simultaneously preserving the neighborhood’s cultural strengths.

Between Executive Orders, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBA), and successive waves of litigation, much remains unclear about the path to greening multifamily affordable housing properties.

In an affordable housing landscape where optimism and creative solutions are more important than ever, private activity bond (PAB) volume recycling can be an attractive device for developers competing in an oversubscribed bond market.