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Tamara L. Osborne, an attorney with more than 20 years’ experience in affordable housing and community development law, has joined Ballard Spahr in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Ms. Osborne comes to Ballard Spahr from VLP Law Group, where she was a partner. Earlier in her career, she was a founding partner of Bocarsly Emden Cowan Esmail & Arndt, a real estate-focused boutique law firm.

While many tax credit fund managers are looking to expand into opportunity zone funds, there may be important differences in how they are treated for regulatory purposes. In this article, Daniel McAvoy, Forrest David Milder, John H. Cornell, III and David F. Schon with Nixon Peabody discuss certain additional considerations that O-zone fund managers may […]

McCormack Baron Salazar, Inc. and the Puerto Rico Department of Housing have officially opened Renaissance Square, a new mixed-income apartment community located in the Hato Rey Barrio of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Located in the heart of the San Juan’s Financial District’s “Golden Mile,” the community has walk-up and townhome-style apartment buildings with market-rate amenities, green energy-saving design, and resilient features.

RED Mortgage Capital, a division of ORIX Real Estate Capital, LLC, has hired Sean Cullen and Ronnie Gyani to lead its multifamily affordable lending activities in the greater New York City area. Cullen and Gyani have worked together since 2010 and both bring a strong level of affordable housing finance experience to RED’s New York and East Coast operations.

The Michaels Organization successfully closed on $61 million in financing for Mission Trail at El Camino Real, a new mixed-income housing community in San Marcos, Texas, that will serve the city’s growing workforce. The majority of the 352 apartments will be reserved for households earning 60 percent or less of the area median income, while 10 percent of the units will be reserved for individuals and families earning less than 140 percent of the area median income. The community will also offer 35 apartments without any income restrictions

The northern California’s Metropolitan Transportation Commission has committed $10 million to launch the Bay Area Preservation Pilot (BAPP). Administered through Enterprise Community Loan Fund and the Low Income Investment Fund, BAPP will address a specific financing gap in the affordable housing market by offering 10-year term loans for the acquisition of affordable, market-rate rental properties.

A new partnership between Woda Cooper Companies, Inc. (Woda Cooper) and Hoosier Veterans Assistance Foundation of Indiana (HVAF) was selected as one of six teams to participate in the 2019 Indiana Supportive Housing Institute.

Woda Cooper and HVAF are in the early planning stages for a new affordable housing community in Indianapolis, with 25 percent of units set aside as supportive housing for veterans. HVAF’s partnership with Woda Cooper marks the first time HVAF will develop permanent supportive housing.

Dean Adler and Ken Bacon have joined the newly formed Dominium Corporate Advisory Board alongside Paul Sween, Armand Brachman and Mark Moorhouse.

The Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund awarded 38 organizations $142.9 million through the FY 2018 round of the Capital Magnet Fund. The 38 awardees were selected after a merit-based competitive review of applications submitted from 116 organizations, which requested more than $570 million in awards this round of the Capital Magnet Fund.

Law firm Tiber Hudson LLC has been named the number 1 underwriter’s counsel in the nation by Thomson Reuters, based on the number of multi-family bond issues completed in 2018.

A New York Times article looks at how technology could help address housing affordability challenges. Matt Hoffman, vice president for innovation at Enterprise Community Partners, notes that Enterprise is seeking partnerships with tech companies with ideas that could change the market, such as new models between renting and ownership or squeezing new supply out of the housing that already exists

Beacon Communities has named Dara Kovel its new CEO. Kovel joined Beacon in 2015 as the President of Beacon Communities Development and succeeds Pam Goodman.

Goodman is retiring after over 20 years of helping to grow Beacon Communities into a large, nationally recognized and diversified multifamily owner/developer, recognized for quality work, its commitment to employees and residents and for creating a culture of engagement.