Soundtrack Benefits Gulf Rebuilding
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Dave Matthews, Sheryl Crow, and the Dixie Chicks are among the big-time artists featured on a new soundtrack raising funds for the Gulf Coast rebuilding efforts of the United Way and Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. Read more
Praying for Cranes
For many affordable housing lenders, 2009 will be remembered as a year not worth remembering. Read more
LIHTC Syndicators Hope for Recovery
The outlook for the low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) market is better in 2010 than last year, according to syndicators. Read more
Harlem Renaissance
The Phipps Houses Group is building 259 new affordable apartments and renovating another building with 81 units in Harlem, with the help of the Tax Credit Assistance Program (TCAP). Read more
TCAP Pushes Denver Project Forward
Community Housing Concepts, Inc. (CHC), has purchased and preserved the affordability of a 100-unit seniors housing development after working on the deal for years. Read more
Little by little, more optimism seems to be creeping back into the aff ordable housing industry, and that cautious optimism can be seen throughout the pages of this issue. Read more
Joe O’Hern has been named director of the Iowa Finance Authority (IFA). Read more
Stimulus Saves Farmworker Deal
In 2007, for-profit Pinnacle Housing Group decided to partner again with nonprofit Rural Neighborhoods, Inc., Read more
Solar Installations Energize Residents
The solar energy switch was flipped on Sunwheel Energy Partners’ first set of affordable housing projects in California at the end of January. Read more
HUD Fiscal '11 Budget Unveiled
The Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) fiscal 2011 budget includes $350 million for a new program to convert about 300,000 public housing and privately owned assisted housing units to project-based subsidies with long-t Read more
The Pathbreaker
The Community Builders, Inc. (TCB), is taking a unique approach to reviving neighborhoods hard hit by foreclosures. Read more
Reaching the Summit
Every year in Georgia, 600 to 700 youths age out of the foster care system. Read more
FROM 2001 TO 2007, the nation’s affordable rental housing stock decreased by 6.3 percent while the high-rent rental housing inventory increased by 94 percent, according to a recent paper from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Read more
Beware of TCAP, Exchange Pitfalls
The Tax Credit Assistance Program (TCAP) and credit exchange, authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), saved many tax credit transactions and infused life support to the low-income housing tax credit industry at its time of most di Read more