Tax Credit Advisor Article Archives

The last couple years of watching Washington has taught us that everything is fair game for subjective (call that “partisan”) interpretation.

Brian Goeken is widely regarded as one of the nation’s top historic preservation experts with a background spanning over 25 years in urban planning, architecture, economic development and urban design.

Financing complex community development projects can take a lot of time and a whole lot of funding sources.

Each year since 2004, NH&RA has bestowed its Affordable Housing Vision Award to affordable housing and community development leaders who have made significant and valuable contributions to the field and demonstrated years of leadership, commitment and imagination.

A $32 million renovation of an old courthouse in Lexington, KY, using both State and Federal Historic Tax Credits, has converted an 120-year-old structure into a beautiful multi-use boon to downtown redevelopment – and also righted a spectacular architectural fail from 50 years ago when a beautiful interior dome was sealed off and turned into an HVAC closet.

If you’re looking for one word to summarize John W. Gahan III’s approach to affordable housing—and virtually every other important aspect of his life—that word would be teamwork.

During an era of urban renaissance, and while sitting within one of America’s most prosperous regions, Baltimore has managed to become the nation’s biggest tragedy.

Rental-housing affordability is a serious issue for many essential moderate-income (“workforce”) workers – especially in more affluent population centers.

To stay profitable, an intermediary (syndicator, CDFI, mortgage originator, donor/technical assistance provider, development consultant) always has to have its own proprietary value proposition – a statement we make about ourselves that, if believed to be true, leads inevitably to the conclusion, ‘Do business with us’.

William “Bill” McGonagle literally has spent nearly his entire life involved with public and affordable housing.

There are many reasons why the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) and the Historic Tax Credit (HTC) have endured politically and produced or preserved so many affordable units and historic structures.

The word that stands out throughout this issue is community. We didn’t plan it that way. But in stories devoted to a wide range of subjects, including multi-credit deals, Opportunity Zones, state funding for housing and even NH&RA’s 2018 Vision Award honorees, the concept of community demanded attention.