Mark Fogarty Author Archives

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In New Orleans, a Long-Awaited Answer to Katrina-Shuttered Public Housing

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St. Bernard Circle Apartments in New Orleans is another piece of an expansive HUD Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI) grant to revitalize public housing in the city. With the use of resiliency standards for hurricanes and flooding, project developers aim to ensure the housing remains for a long time.

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Small Housing Developer Leverages Partnership for PSH

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It is highly unusual these days for an affordable housing development to be financed from one source of funds. But that is what has happened at Elevate Estates in Henderson, KY, which secured money from two arms of HUD’s HOME program. Developer Elevate WKY (who shares the same name as the development) was awarded $15 […]

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“A No-Brainer:” Using Infill on VA Campus to House California Veterans

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Creative land development uses are always noteworthy. Consider Oak Gardens in Menlo Park, CA. This permanent supportive housing project for veterans has utilized the Congressionally authorized Enhanced Use Lease (EUL) program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to transform underused land on a VA property into a viable project.

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“No Place Like Home” Targets Rural CA Residents

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California has many programs to boost affordable housing. One example is the No Place Like Home (NPLH) program, which helped fund Siskiyou Crossroads’ rural housing project in Yreka, CA.

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HIV/AIDS Survivors Will Find a Place to Live in New York City

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A giant tulip tree in Queens has inspired The Lirio, a space for the formerly homeless and those affected by the HIV/AIDS crisis.

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Alternate Bond Structure Saves $3 Million on DC Project

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Gilbane Development Co. has saved nearly $3 million on its Barnaby & 7th project in Washington, DC, using a forward M-TEB instead of a traditional bond structure.

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Second Effort Succeeds for Colorado Workforce Housing

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Evergreen Real Estate Group’s Rifle Apartments project in Rifle, CO will be the first family LIHTC development in Rifle in 20 years, addressing the urgent need for affordable housing in the area.

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Developer Expanding into New Mexico Affordable Housing

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Dominium is targeting New Mexico in a big way. Its latest construction project in the Land of Enchantment will add 216 affordable units to the city of Rio Rancho, and there’s more to come elsewhere in the state.

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Historic TN Building Features Affordable Housing Again

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The adaptive reuse of the historic Daugherty Furniture Company building in Clinton, TN, turning it into 39 units of affordable housing, is reviving one of its original uses, as the upper floors were devoted to housing when the retail property was built in the 1940s.

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NM Housing Innovation Program Can Be the Last Bucket of Money

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What happens if a development doesn’t qualify for one of Housing New Mexico’s many regular affordable housing programs?

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Dominium/Blackstone Build 500 Affordable Senior/Family Units in AZ

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Dominium, using $79 million of Low Income Housing Tax Credit equity raised through Blackstone, is developing more than 500 affordable family and senior housing units in Phoenix in two separate but neighboring projects.

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‘Public Land for Public Good’ Produces VA Affordable Housing

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Virginia residents who want to work for Fairfax County or make their views known on matters pending before the county government now may not have far to go, thanks to a Low Income Housing Tax Credit project being developed by Lincoln Avenue Communities on an underused parking lot at the county Government Center using an innovative “quadruplet” structure.

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