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Kentucky Housing Corporation (KHC) has revised its 2019 multifamily underwriting models to include more information for Housing Credit applicants selecting the income averaging option. The affected models include the model for the 9 percent Housing Credit competitive application, as well as the model for Tax-Exempt Bond applications (both open window submissions and responses to the […]

Florida Housing Finance Corporation has released an updated set of Housing Credit Geographic Request for Applications: RFA 2018-110 Housing Credit Financing for Affordable Housing Developments Located in Medium Counties can be found here: https://www.floridahousing.org/programs/developers-multifamily-programs/competitive/2018/2018-110 RFA 2018-111 Housing Credit Financing for Affordable Housing Developments Located in Miami-Dade County can be found here: https://www.floridahousing.org/programs/developers-multifamily-programs/competitive/2018/2018-111 RFA 2018-112 Housing […]

On August 28 the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities released a new report entitled, “Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Could Do More to Expand Opportunity for Poor Families.”  The report finds that,  “despite some recent improvements, LIHTC falls short of meeting its potential to help poor families move to low-poverty neighborhoods with strong schools and low […]

WHEDA’s next Tax Credit Compliance Workshop will be held on October 18th, and online registration is now open! It will be held at The Ingleside Hotel in Waukesha/Pewaukee. Click here to get registered. The registration fee is $125/person. This course is intended as an overview of the program, compliance requirements, and WHEDA’s monitoring procedures. It […]

In coordination with the Texas Apartment Association (“TAA”), the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs(“TDHCA”) will present Housing Tax Credit (“HTC”) Compliance Training in Austin on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Austin local time, at Norris Conference Center, 2525 W. Anderson Lane, Austin, TX 78757. This training will be […]

The latest issue of HUD’s Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research, guest edited by Veronica Helms Garrison and Craig Evan Pollack, is titled “The Housing-Health Connection” and features a symposium on the complex interplay between housing and health outcomes.

As I write this month’s column, there are 81 days until the mid-term elections (probably closer to 60 by the time you read it) and only about 35 remaining legislative working days through the end of the year.

In all of the 50 largest cities across the country (or the “central cities”), 75 percent of the Extremely Low Income (ELI) population is rent “burdened” and paying more than 30 percent of their income for housing, according to a new report issued by Bill Brauner, Director of Housing & Preservation at the Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation (CEDAC) in Boston.

For Immediate Release WASHINGTON, DC (August 28, 2018) – The National Housing & Rehabilitation Association announced today that two Boston-based champions of affordable housing and development will receive NH&RA Affordable Housing Vision Awards in recognition of their stewardship and expansion of affordable housing opportunities for low-income families around the country. John W. Gahan III, Partner […]

On August 22, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced legislation to create a middle-income housing tax credit (MIHTC) aimed at sparking the development of rental homes affordable to Americans with moderate incomes.

A recent article on the Forbes.com highlights efforts by Health Insurers including Anthem, Aetna, Humana, Medicare, Medicaid and UnitedHealthcare investing is housing as a “social determinant of health” in an effort to increase profits and reduce costs.

The Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) and the Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation (CEDAC) will host an information session on the newly-announced supportive housing competition on Thursday, September 13.  The session will be held in DHCD’s Boston offices at 100 Cambridge Street, 2nd floor conference room C, and will begin at 11am.  If […]