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Modular affordable housing projects—with their quick construction timelines and cost savings compared with traditional stick-build projects—are gaining in popularity, but the projects present unique challenges in terms of financing, development expertise and site selection.

Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) has long been touted as an urban planner’s dream with reduced car dependence via housing located near public transit.

Converting an old school into apartments isn’t easy.

Many affordable and workforce housing projects have bucolic names referring to picturesque surroundings, like the Stone Mill or Smith Ranch Apartments.

Rodger Brown has spent four decades in the affordable housing business and has been an integral part of Boston-based nonprofit developer and property manager Preservation of Affordable Housing, Inc. (POAH) since 2004.

As we near the end of the year, federal agencies, including the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), are finalizing the design of Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)-created programs and releasing more and more of the funds.

There are many considerations that go into the design of housing.

Global warming and climate change are wreaking havoc on our health, our livelihoods and our housing.

For nearly four decades, the Low Income Housing Tax Credit has fueled much of America’s affordable housing construction.

Launched in 2010, the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Choice Neighborhoods program has been transforming communities across the nation through Planning and Implementation Grants that breathe new life into distressed affordable housing projects and surrounding neighborhoods.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently opened applications for its new Green and Resilient Retrofit Program (GRRP), a multi-billion-dollar initiative meant for deep green improvements to certain HUD contract properties.

For 35 years, Denise B. Muha has served as the executive director of the National Leased Housing Association (NLHA), one of the oldest affordable housing advocacy organizations in Washington, DC.