A Vision to End Homelessness
For more than two decades, communities across America have struggled with homelessness, one of our most vexing and complex social problems. Read more
NEWARK, N.J. - Before the real estate boom here, the Unified Vailsburg Services Organization (UVSO) didn’t build rental housing, much less projects that mixed apartments with retail space. Read more
April Corrigan never expected it to happen to her. A single mother with two young daughters, she had a good job that paid $22.50 an hour and a nice place to live. Read more
Back in the Game?
As the dust of its accounting scandal settles, Fannie Mae heads into the new year hoping to bolster its lagging multifamily division through process improvements and new product design. Read more
A Forest in the City
BOSTON - It’s not normal: an overgrown field ringed with thick woodland in the middle of one of the most densely developed cities in the country. Read more
WASHINGTON, D.C. - If your state, city, or county recently adopted a 10-year plan to end chronic homelessness, Philip Mangano probably had something to do with it. Read more
Money Talks
There’s a reason we should help the homeless off the streets and into housing. Read more
Ready, Set, Lend!
With GSEs aiming to match aggressive Wall Street conduits amid slower borrowing activity, pricing and underwriting may become even more liberal. Read more
SEATTLE - Seventy-five of the city’s most down-and-out homeless alcoholics are off the streets and living in a bold new development by the nonprofit Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC). Read more
SEATTLE - The discussion about affordable housing needs to change, according to Kim Herman, executive director of the Washington State Housing Finance Commission (WSHFC). Read more
Big-Box Mixes with Affordable Housing
When affordable housing developers mix a little retail into their projects, it’s usually not Wal-Mart, Target, or Whole Foods. Read more
NEW YORK CITY- For decades, teachers, firefighters, and policemen have found refuge from New York City’s brutal housing market in Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town, one of the biggest communities ever built for people earning moderate incomes Read more
No Soldier Left Behind
An estimated 200,000 veterans are homeless on any given night in America. One of them was Robert Scott Sr., who lived in a San Francisco alley for years. Read more