David A. Smith • 5 min read
Why so challenging? asked the housing joker and would not stay for an answer.
Pamela Martineau • 7 min read
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Multifamily are experiencing an uptick in purchase volumes as the debt capital market environment appears to be shifting in the latter half of 2022.
Mark Fogarty • 5 min read
The concept of seniors living out their golden years is more apt than usual at the Gardner Terrace I Apartments in Attleboro, MA.
Mark Fogarty • 8 min read
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.
Darryl Hicks • 15 min read
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.
Pamela Martineau • 10 min read
Rising Interest Rates and Fears of Recession Force Developers and Lenders to Get Creative
Jessica Hoefer • 3 min read
I recently attended the National Council of State Housing Agencies conference in Chicago.
Ravi Malhotra • 3 min read
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.
Pamela Martineau • 6 min read
Techniques For Cutting Costs and Speeding Construction
Kaitlyn Snyder • 3 min read
I’ve heard the current development environment described as playing whack-a-mole: as soon as one problem is solved, another crops up.
Pamela Martineau • 6 min read
How Design Features Are Helping to Reduce Costs
Scott Beyer • 6 min read
Developers who build market-rate housing are increasingly turning to prefabricated construction techniques, because they represent, in multiple ways, a path to efficiency.