Member News

The Partnership for the Bay’s Future aims to advance the region’s future by solving its interconnected challenges of housing, transportation and economic opportunity.

It will begin with two funds—the Investment Fund and Policy Fund—to expand and protect the homes of up to 175,000 households over the next five years and preserve and produce more than 8,000 homes over the next five to 10 years in San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda, and Contra Costa counties.

MassHousing has closed on $14 million in financing to Beacon Communities LLC for the rehabilitation and preservation of affordability at the 72-unit Camden Apartments in Boston, MA.

MassHousing provided Beacon Communities with a $5.9 million tax-exempt construction and permanent loan and an $8.1 million tax-exempt bridge loan. The MassHousing financing also generated $6.8 million in Low-Income Housing Tax Credit equity for the project.

CREA, LLC (CREA) announced its 2018 results, including $809 million in equity closed and an additional $317 million in equity raised or committed.

The Puerto Rico Department of Housing and national affordable housing developer, McCormack Baron Salazar, Inc., celebrated the groundbreaking of critically-needed, intergenerational, mixed-income housing in the Barrio Turabo.

NTCIC announces the successful financial closing to provide capital for the adaptive reuse of the historic Hoen Lithograph buildings located in East Baltimore, MD.

Churchill Stateside Group, LLC (CSG), a real estate and renewable energy financial services company, announced the closing of $36.4 million in long-term, fixed-rate financing and $33.4 million in Federal and State LIHTC for Rural Multifamily Properties located in central Pennsylvania, Georgia and Washington.

Ohio Capital Corporation for Housing (OCCH) is pleased to announce the promotion of Lori McMillan to Director of Underwriting in the Fund Management Department.

Ohio Capital Corporation for Housing (OCCH) Board of Directors has announced that it has hired Peg Moertl as president. Moertl will succeed Hal Keller, OCCH’s president of 25 years, when he retires in 2019.

NH&RA member Enterprise Community Partners announced two ventures that elevate homes as essential to health and well-being with Kaiser Permanente. Kaiser Permanente invested $15 million in the Enterprise-managed Housing for Health Fund, which will preserve affordable homes in the Bay Area, and match up to $35 million in additional funds raised by Enterprise. This equity […]

NH&RA members Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Barings partnered with Ally Financial to invest $70 million towards increasing affordable housing stock in the Charlotte, NC. The $70.75 million investment will go towards: $11 million for the newly proposed Housing Opportunity Investment Fund — a private sector fund that will oversee some of the affordable […]

Cinnaire recently announced the appointment of Chris Neary as Vice President, Policy, Research and Advocacy in the company’s Wilmington, DE office. Chris will be responsible for the development, management and execution of Cinnaire’s public policy agenda, and the coordination of Cinnaire’s actions and work on policy matters at the state and national level. Chris previously […]

TCAM announced the expansion of the services it provides to affordable housing lenders. In November 2018, TCAM became part of MRI Software, a global leader in real estate software and comprehensive solutions for the affordable housing industry. Together, TCAM and MRI can now offer cutting-edge services to state and local government agencies and financial institutions that provide single-family and multifamily loans including subordinate (“cash flow” contingent) loan portfolios to the affordable housing industry.