General News

The Institutional Property Advisors (IPA) and Marcus & Millichap surveyed multifamily owners, operators and developers representing nearly 900,000 units across the country to gauge their market sentiment.

The Delaware State Housing Authority (DSHA) deadline submission for the 2020 LIHTC application will continue to be Thursday, April 30, at 3:00 pm ET. No new applications will be accepted after this deadline.

The Leading Voices in Real Estate podcast with host Matt Slepin recently held a special episode on COVID-19’s Impact on Commercial Real Estate with  Spencer Levy, chairman, Americas Research & senior economic advisor at CBRE. Levy outlines the potential implications the pandemic has across various sectors including multifamily, retail, industrial and office and digs into the impacts on a few specialty product types like co-working, seniors housing, data centers and self-storage.

NH&RA is hosting a members-only town hall to provide a forum for affordable housing owners and operators to share COVID-19 best practices on Thursday, March 26 from 3:00-4:30 pm EDT.

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) recently aired its new documentary, East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story. Stories from East Lake Meadow residents in Atlanta reveal hardship and resilience, and raise critical questions about race, poverty and who is deserving of public assistance.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) posted interim guidance on preventing the spread of COVID-19 in retirement communities and independent living facilities.

The National Council of State Housing Agencies (NCSHA) launched a new COVID-19 Resources website that complies guidance from federal agencies, state housing agencies and general resources on the pandemic. To suggest a resource for this page, or if you have a question, please contact NCSHA. The Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition’s (AHTCC) resource page is […]

The rapid escalation of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic is having a deeply unsettling impact on the on how we live and how we work.  It is testing our disaster response system in unanticipated ways and will require a new kind of resilience from us.  Perhaps our most critical issue right now is balance: how to be stewards for some of the most vulnerable members of our society while, at the same time, navigating our own personal uncertainties and business obligations. 

The National Digital Inclusion Alliance has created an open-source document to track all the updated COVID-19 offers made by Internet Service Providers across the nation. This is getting updated on an ongoing basis. If you know of any offers in your area that could be helpful to the community, please add to the spreadsheet!

HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson was added to the White House Coronavirus Task Force. While the risk of infections for Americans remains low, HUD is encouraging multifamily owners and agents, Public Housing Authorities, Performance Based Contract Administrators, FHA lenders to make the information below available to residents and employees.

The Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future (SAHF) will host a CORES 101: Overview of the CORES Certification & Application webinar at 1:30 pm ET on March 17.

High-income renters don’t just rent high-end units. Some high-income renters choose to rent units that would be affordable to renters with lower incomes, thereby reducing the number of affordable units available to lower income households.