Caitlin Jones & A. J. Johnson • 9 min read
Tax Credit Advisor, January 2009: McCormack Baron Salazar, a St. Louis, MO-based developer, specializes in projects that help rebuild distressed neighborhoods within major urban cores. For many years, the company has developed a number of mixed-income, mixed-use communities under the HOPE VI public housing revitalization and mixed-finance programs administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
Caitlin Jones & A. J. Johnson • 1 min read
Tax Credit Advisor, January 2009: The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has published a Community Developments Insights report that describes how banks can participate in the federal historic rehabilitation tax credit program.
Caitlin Jones & A. J. Johnson • 1 min read
Tax Credit Advisor, January 2009: The U.S. Census Bureau has released the first comprehensive data since 2000 for more than 2,500 mid-sized counties, cities, and towns, providing the first statistical “portrait” of these communities on a wide range of key socioeconomic and housing topics.
Caitlin Jones & A. J. Johnson • 5 min read
Tax Credit Advisor, January 2009: An historic former brewery building in La Crosse, WI (pop. 50,000) has been converted into mixed-income apartments in a cooperative venture with the city and a major local employer, a regional medical center.
Caitlin Jones & A. J. Johnson • 8 min read
Tax Credit Advisor, January 2006: The word “veteran” tends to conjure up images of an older generation, one that served in wars of yesteryear. But take a look at the statistics, and a very different picture emerges.
Caitlin Jones & A. J. Johnson • 9 min read
Tax Credit Advisor, January 2009: Just as the low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) industry this year has recognized the importance of diversifying its investor base, diversification seems to be reasonable for LIHTC developers to consider as well. This can mean exploring and pursuing “niche” development opportunities beyond the plain vanilla LIHTC project. These real estate products may stem from promising demographic or cultural trends or meet another specific local need
Caitlin Jones & A. J. Johnson • 6 min read
Tax Credit Advisor, January 2006: Developed by Fountainhead Real Estate Development, a local real estate company, The Commons at Plant Zero is a gateway into the central business district that presents tenants and businesses the chance to realize new growth in an area that is moving beyond its economically distressed history
Caitlin Jones & A. J. Johnson • 6 min read
Tax Credit Advisor, January 2009: A local housing authority in Southern California has converted one of its public housing projects to long-term affordable apartments in a preservation transaction that will renovate the property and enable the current residents to stay with enhanced services.
Caitlin Jones & A. J. Johnson • 3 min read
Tax Credit Advisor, January 2009: The Internal Revenue Service has issued new guidance for determining the amount of additional low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) authority and special new tax-exempt bond authority available for use in qualified disaster-stricken areas in the Midwest, Texas, and Louisiana. These are Midwest counties hit in 2008 by various natural disasters (e.g., storms, floods), and counties in Texas and Louisiana damaged by Hurricane Ike.
Caitlin Jones & A. J. Johnson • 8 min read
Tax Credit Advisor, January 2009: Speakers on a recent national Webinar offered advice to developers, owners, and property managers on how best to take advantage of the new options available for computing utility allowances for low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) units. These options can reward owners of newer and more energy efficient buildings by generating a smaller utility allowance amount.
Caitlin Jones & A. J. Johnson • 9 min read
Tax Credit Advisor January 2009: After a rough-and-tumble 2008, syndicators are anticipating a continuation of challenging conditions in the low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) equity market in 2009, according to those interviewed by the Tax Credit Advisor around the beginning of December.
Caitlin Jones & A. J. Johnson • 4 min read
<Tax Credit Advisor August, 2006: Recent guidelines that allow New Markets Tax Credit investments in businesses serving “targeted populations” outside of low-income census tracks may prove tough to implement.