Tax Credit Advisor Article Archives

As the housing crisis deepens and the pandemic continues to affect the hospitality industry and commercial properties, an increasing number of states are seeking to convert hotels, motels and other commercial properties into housing for low-income residents and those experiencing homelessness.

I don’t intend to write a piece in these pages that sugarcoats the situation in Cleveland.

William “Bill” MacRostie, founder of MacRostie Historic Advisors and an expert in Historic Tax Credits (HTC), has advised clients working on historic rehabilitation projects regarding everything from homes to ballparks.

More and more, developers and architects are having to pay attention to climate change, especially when building anything near water.

In this month’s issue, Mark Fogarty reports on a rehab of the Miriam Apartments in Chicago. Originally built in 1925 as housing for seniors.

As Alliant Capital’s executive vice president, Dudley Benoit oversees the company’s Low Income Housing Tax Credit production teams, originations and investor relations.

A National Housing & Rehabilitation Association town hall last month covered financing and implementation options for energy efficient construction.

Pop quiz, hotshot: You’re mountain-biking down a virgin trail making great time, when it abruptly turns much steeper and much rockier. Trying to stop now will just launch you headfirst over the handlebars. What do you do?

Low Income Housing Tax Credit-related developers, investors and policymakers all need to know where projects are likely to succeed.

While it is still a little too soon to say with certainty that the combined infrastructure and budget reconciliation package will be enacted, or for that matter what precisely will be in it, it is the quintessential pastime of policy watchers in Washington like me to speculate.

Fifteen years ago, residents of the historic Miriam Apartments in Chicago got together to create a grand mosaic, a bright and beautiful therapeutic work of art that symbolized the positive aspects of what living there meant to them.

There is no end to the complicated, arcane rules applicable to Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTCs) and the properties they help to build.