Low income housing – LIHTC post-rehab real estate tax assessments

The low income housing industry has many current challenges including uncertainty with corporate tax reform affecting low income housing tax credit equity pricing, increasing competitiveness for soft loans and rising labor & material costs.  Another more subtle challenge relates to real estate tax assessments for low income housing properties renovated with LIHTC’s. Many real estate investors and professionals expect a local real estate tax assessor to revisit a property’s market or assessed value post-sale, especially if the property’s sale price [...]

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AHF LIVE: Trump’s Impact on Project-based Section 8 (HAP) and Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Sales

With the 2016 Presidential Election in the rearview mirror, it is time to look forward to how the Trump Administration will affect the Section 8 (HAP) and Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) programs.  This was the primary focus of the AFH Live 2016 conference in Chicago with many industry leaders sharing their insights and perspectives on the topic. We know with certainty that Donald J. Trump will be our next President.  There is uncertainty to his agenda and views [...]

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Sunday NY Times on Affordable Housing Development

In Sunday’s New York Times, the editorial board published an editorial on the far-reaching benefits of affordable housing development.  In the piece, titled “Ending the Cycle of Racial Isolation,” the board references a study on an affordable housing development in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, that was chronicled in Douglas Massey’s book, “Climbing Mount Laurel,” about a development completed over fifteen years ago.  In addition to important benefits to the residents, in the area surrounding the development, “crime did not [...]

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Show Me a Hero

One of my favorite parts of this job is the fascinating people I meet in the affordable housing industry. As a broker I need to be constantly working to understand as much of the market place as possible, and this means meeting with and talking as many owners, developers, managers and specialized vendors as possible. Most of these folks are entrepreneurs who need to apply high levels of creativity to their business. This fact is true [...]

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