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Inflation is not a single force but a swarm of costs that appears in scouts and attacks from all directions.

Historic tax credits can significantly help multifamily financing, particularly for projects involving the rehabilitation and preservation of historic buildings. The Ocean Center Apartments in Long Beach, CA, serves as an example.

The last scalable change to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s program compliance was around the time of America’s bicentennial. It’s certainly a different world today. And you’re not alone in wanting to understand its impact.

Since 1996, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has provided loans for affordable multifamily housing in rural areas through its Rural Development Section 538 program.

The Supreme Court recently heard arguments in City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson, in a rare instance of the Court grappling with the issue of homelessness.

What does the future hold for interest rates? Many real estate developers, consumers and economists are weighing that question as mortgage interest rates hover at roughly seven percent, more than double what they were during the height of the pandemic.

On May 29 of this year, HUD published a proposed rule update to its decades-old HOME Investment Partnerships program, a federal block grant that provides funding to hundreds of state and local jurisdictions for a diverse array of low- and moderate-income homeownership and rental activities.

Affordable housing developers use creative approaches to deal with the rising cost of things, like insurance, utilities, construction and operations. 

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has introduced new guidance and rule changes intended to bolster the nation’s supply of housing, especially affordable housing. 

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), the official name of the COVID stimulus bill, wasn’t associated with housing at the time.

The nearly 100-year-old and newly redeveloped 140 Clarendon St. in the Back Bay section of Boston has a lot going on under its roof.

Four years after the response to COVID-19 emptied downtown high-rise office buildings of workers, leaving some towers furnished shells empty of life or commerce, why hasn’t the prophesied breakthrough of office-to-residential conversions appeared?