Member News

John Gahan serves on the Board of Directors of the National Housing & Rehabilitation Association and the Executive Committee of Preservation Massachusetts. Deirdre Robinson sits on the board of the Lawyers Clearinghouse for Affordable Housing and is an active member in the ABA Affordable Housing Forum and CREW Boston. Karen Kepler is active in the Boston Bar Association Real Estate Section and the ABA Affordable Housing Forum and is a past-president of the Lawyers Clearinghouse for Affordable Housing and the Massachusetts Women’s Bar Association.

Affordable housing leader The Woda Group, Inc. and its affiliates have been renamed Woda Cooper Companies, Inc. effective January 1, 2018. The firm, with operations in 15 states, was also restructured to become the first vertically-integrated affordable housing company in the nation to be owned by an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).

Scott Croul has been named Senior Managing Director and Head of Small Balance Originations for RED Mortgage Capital, LLC, the Mortgage banking arm of comprehensive capital provider RED Capital Group LLC.

Wilberding will be based in Washington, D.C. and will source, price and structure loans for the firm’s Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions.

Originally built in the early 1950s, Whittier is home to 200 public housing families. 

Aaron will guide the firm in leveraging technology and new methods to provide greater value to clients, identifying new lines of business and providing high-quality and timely advice and counsel.

Kevin Deegan has joined the firm’s rapidly growing affordable housing/FHA group as Director.  He will be focused primarily on originating and closing Affordable and FHA multifamily loans nationwide, but will also serve clients using Hunt Mortgage Group’s balance sheet products and agency executions.

the award-winning fellowship is the premiere opportunity to build a career in public-interest design.  Since its launch in 2000, the fellowship has supported 73 fellows who have helped produce or preserve 11,000 affordable, sustainable homes and design more than 80 community spaces tailored to the specific needs of individual communities.

We wanted to share some exciting news with you. On February 13, 2018 the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund awarded The Community Builders CDE LLC a $50 million New Markets Tax Credit allocation. This is our fourth NMTC award, which now total $140 million. We have deployed previous awards to […]

A grand opening and ribbon-cutting at Nelsonville School Commons is set for March 2, 2018, at 10 AM. The event will celebrate the historic renovation of a beloved early 1900s school to create 33 affordable rental homes for workforce families and seniors in Nelsonville, OH. The Woda Group, Inc., a leading affordable housing firm based […]

Community Investment Corporation of the Carolinas has changed names to become Centrant Community Capital. Over the past 27 years, this organization’s impact has expanded far beyond the Carolinas including the states of Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, and Texas. Centrant emphasizes that service and commitment will remain the same, but the name is in line with a […]

  WASHINGTON (February 26, 2018) – David Abromowitz, Of Counsel at Goulston & Storrs P.C., in Boston Mass., was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Housing & Rehabilitation Association at NH&RA’s 2018 Annual Meeting last week in Palm Beach, Calif.  NH&RA is the leading professional association of companies and individuals who […]