Tax Credit Advisor Article Archives

The concept of seniors living out their golden years is more apt than usual at the Gardner Terrace I Apartments in Attleboro, MA.

HOPE VI, a hugely ambitious program to replace nearly 100,000 severely distressed public housing units over two decades with mixed-income units and to improve residential services and quality of life in hundreds of neighborhoods, clearly had mixed results, especially with its legacy of displacing tenants.

Tax-exempt bonds (TEBs) have their own special place in the financing of affordable multifamily housing, and few people understand how to structure deals that maximize their impact more so than Washington, DC attorney Wade Norris. 

Rising Interest Rates and Fears of Recession Force Developers and Lenders to Get Creative

I recently attended the National Council of State Housing Agencies conference in Chicago.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) helps low-income households access energy efficiency, renewable energy and health and safety upgrades for their homes. 

Techniques For Cutting Costs and Speeding Construction

I’ve heard the current development environment described as playing whack-a-mole: as soon as one problem is solved, another crops up.

How Design Features Are Helping to Reduce Costs

Developers who build market-rate housing are increasingly turning to prefabricated construction techniques, because they represent, in multiple ways, a path to efficiency.

When the Ukrainians begin rebuilding their bludgeoned eastern cities and returning to their damaged homes, among the dysfunctional Soviet legacies they must address is a deeply embedded, invisible one: their national building code. 

The Lambert Houses in the New York City borough of the Bronx were considered cutting-edge solutions to inner city housing problems when they were constructed in the 1970s.