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Vince Bennett, President, McCormack Baron Salazar examines the balance between building quality housing and supporting families through services tailored to their needs.

Since 2008, HUD-VASH has acted as a bulwark against veteran homelessness.
Because it serves a uniquely complex sub-group of America’s homeless population and is likewise composed of a uniquely complex development application and approval process, this presents a singular set of robust incentives, and potential challenges, for prospective developers.

Adaptive reuse can be a greener, less expensive, and more attractive alternative to new construction. For cities with a glut of older buildings, renovating and repurposing those structures can be an enticing way for politicians and planning officials to lessen a housing crisis.

The unease that gripped the LIHTC investor market earlier this year—following a new administration and some uncertainty in Washington—has started to lift, according to industry syndicators. The market is further buoyed by the continued legislative advance of the AHCIA.

St. Bernard Circle Apartments in New Orleans is another piece of an expansive HUD Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI) grant to revitalize public housing in the city. With the use of resiliency standards for hurricanes and flooding, project developers aim to ensure the housing remains for a long time.

While national media focus on headline issues related to national security and trade, administrative actions with significant impact on federally assisted programs often goes unnoticed. One such federal rule is the Equal Access Rule (EAR).

On May 21, with his flair for the bombshell, President Trump, in a post on Truth Social, stated his strong interest in privatizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – and I flashed back to October 2008.

It is highly unusual these days for an affordable housing development to be financed from one source of funds. But that is what has happened at Elevate Estates in Henderson, KY, which secured money from two arms of HUD’s HOME program. Developer Elevate WKY (who shares the same name as the development) was awarded $15 […]

As America’s homelessness crisis deepens, California has become a national model for successful Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) projects. Drawing on both local and state support, these PSH projects provide critical pathways to safety for people at risk of homelessness or for those already living on the streets.

As tort reforms addressing property claims continue to develop nationwide, California developers and housing providers are championing the passage of Senate Bill 84.

In January 2025, wildfires tore through Southern California, destroying over 16,000 structures and causing an estimated $45 billion in insured losses. Although the fires were the catastrophic, no multifamily affordable housing developments were destroyed.

In 2007, the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) began exploring the possibility of a major redevelopment that would reshape Jordan Downs, one of the city’s most troubled areas.