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Affordable Housing Shortage To overcome housing shortages, developers and nonprofit groups have been lobbying Congress for more tax credits or other subsidies that can support affordable construction. But faced with budget deficits, Washington has been reluctant to increase the amount of money spent on housing. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
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Affordable-Housing Awareness Increasing demand and rising costs pose challenges in this specialized sector. |
National Real Estate Investor
March 1, 2003
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A New Era For Affordable Housing The competition for affordable housing tax credits and related incentives is as intense as ever among developers. Project sponsors are searching for ways to stand apart from the mainstream: The gray, boxy apartment towers of yesteryear are giving way to eye-catching mixed-use facilities |
Real Estate Portfolio
July 2000
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Still Affordable? The affordable housing market could become too expensive for REITs and REOCs |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Jul/Aug 2003
Hunter L. Johnson |
New Funding for Affordable Housing Encourages Public/Private Partnerships Commercial real estate developers should stay abreast of affordable-housing activities in their markets as the number of opportunities for public/private partnerships for these projects continues to grow. |
National Real Estate Investor
August 1, 2011
Beth Mattson-Teig |
Champion of Affordable Housing Developer Robin Hughes is committed to more than just putting roofs over people's heads. Her goal is to use affordable housing to spark positive change for individuals, families and communities in Southern California. |
BusinessWeek
November 1, 2004
Peter Coy |
When Home Buying by the Poor Backfires The steady push of homeownership to lower and lower income groups by government initiatives, while positive in many ways, is not an unadulterated good. For many families, a house can be a bad investment. |
Reason
January 2009
Michael Flynn |
Anatomy of a Breakdown Concerted government policy helped trigger the financial meltdown -- and will almost certainly extend it. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Mar/Apr 2003
Roxanna Guilford-Blake |
A Maturing Market Seniors housing struggles to find balance before the boom. |
U.S. Banker
February 2006 |
Gimme Shelter The U.S. residential real-estate boom masks an ugly truth: Affordable housing is increasingly hard to find. Enter manufactured housing, an $8 billion industry that promises to grow by 10% a year. |
U.S. Banker
March 2008
John Engen |
The Politics of Lending Sen. John McCain took time to present his vision of a world with simplified mortgage applications, and even suggested that the government might need to jump in to help mitigate the worsening crisis. |
InternetNews
February 3, 2004
Roy Mark |
Coalition Targets Digital Divide A new group hopes tax credits will encourage developers to integrate high-speed Internet access into their housing plans. |
National Real Estate Investor
May 1, 2005
Stan Luxenburg |
Urban Magic Earvin "Magic" Johnson has helped prove that there is money to be made by retail developers in underserved inner-city markets that have not seen private investment in decades. |
The Motley Fool
April 3, 2007
S.J. Caplan |
New Rules Coming for Fannie and Freddie The House passes a bill creating a new regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. There's no doubt that accounting irregularities have to be cleaned up and confidence restored, but an increase in long-term capital requirements would be unnecessary and harmful. |
Reason
July 2006
Joel Miller |
The Politics of Sky-High House Prices How American government jacks up the price of owning your home. |
Fast Company
December 2008 |
High Point: Recreating Nature With A Natural-Water Channel At High Point in Seattle -- a green community -- market rate condos and townhouses mix with affordable housing funding largely by Enterprise. |
BusinessWeek
April 11, 2005
Kathleen Madigan |
After The Housing Boom What the real estate slowdown means for the economy. |
National Real Estate Investor
November 1, 2006
Jennifer Popovec |
The Tipping Point In the U.S., the number of certified green buildings built each year has mushroomed, but for most commercial developers, green has been an afterthought or a costly option. |
BusinessWeek
May 13, 2010
James Warren |
When Counties Don't Stop Governing at the Border To compete for funding - and save their budgets - municipalities are doing the unthinkable: Working together. |
The Motley Fool
July 28, 2008
David Lee Smith |
Is Housing Rounding a Bend? The housing rescue package, though flawed, could change the sector's course. |
U.S. Banker
April 2010
Glen Fest |
Cities Take the Keys A nonprofit housing program is gearing up to rehab and prepare lender-owned homes for resale, and relieve banks of some high-cost inventory. |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2010
Donald Jay Korn |
Real Estate Revisited Have real estate prices finally hit bottom? As far as home prices go, the data says they have. |
U.S. Banker
July 2004
Michael Dumiak |
SubdivIsions Over the past decade part of the ticket to building the country's massive financial empires has been a public promise to pour money into developing communities. Add up the numbers up and it's a staggering amount of money. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
May/Jun 2004
J.R. Chantengco |
Affordable Money Nonprofit and private developers can take advantage of tax-exempt bonds. |
BusinessWeek
October 27, 2003
Roger O. Crockett |
From Projects to Progress in Chicago A massive renewal effort that stresses new housing, community services, and commercial development is turning neighborhoods around. |
U.S. Banker
December 2008
John Engen |
When Boom Goes Bust The subprime crisis, credit squeeze, housing slump and resulting economic fallout has played out with particular vigor in Las Vegas. |
BusinessWeek
June 4, 2009
Peter Coy |
Foreclosure: Now an Upscale Blight Rising job losses and falling home prices are dragging down people who never dreamed they would get in trouble. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Nov/Dec 2003
Christine Rombouts |
Promoting Preservation Financing incentives help brokers restore and reuse historic buildings. |
CFO
December 1, 2011
Kate O'Sullivan |
Rebuilding, Slowly Four years after the housing-market collapse, the sector's troubles still weigh on the broader economy. But housing CFOs are searching for a path to growth. |
Inc.
May 1, 2000
Mike Hofman |
Urban Outfitters Big-city mayors are eager to make revivified inner cities a part of their legacies... Cleveland... Denver... Chicago... Austin... |
BusinessWeek
July 8, 2010
Woellert & Miller |
Time to Rethink Fannie and Freddie The debate has begun on how to reform the mortgage giants. |
BusinessWeek
June 24, 2010
Anastasia Ustinova |
The New Russian Dream, One Home at a Time To move its citizens from apartment blocks to suburban developments, Russia is buying tracts of land and teaming up with developers, however, financing may prove to be an obstacle. |
National Real Estate Investor
May 1, 2007
Doug Bibby |
A Stubborn Affordable Housing Problem While there has never been a better time to be an apartment professional or investor, there has never been a more important time to be an advocate for the creation of more affordable housing. |
Foundation News & Commentary
Sep/Oct 2006
Robert H. Martin |
New Orleans' Philanthropic Challenge With hundreds of thousands of New Orleanians still scattered across America, homelessness and the lack of rootedness are felt intensely. Funders are helping to set the stage for transformation. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Mar/Apr 2008
Larry Harwood |
Manufactured Success Today's land-lease communities provide an alternative niche for investment dollars. |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 29, 2008
Martha Lagace |
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel Dean Jay O. Light and a group of Harvard Business School faculty explored the origins and possible outcomes of the U.S. financial crisis at a recent "Turmoil on the Street" panel. |
BusinessWeek
February 3, 2011
Lorraine Woellert |
The Real Estate Lobby Is Ready to Rumble Financiers, homebuilders, and real estate agents are uniting to save mortgage subsidies |
BusinessWeek
January 27, 2011
Clea Benson |
Fannie and Freddie's Big Foreclosure Backlog They have more homes than they can sell -- and as the backlog builds, the housing market could suffer |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Nov/Dec 2004
Sarah Hoban |
From Concept to Reality They can be frustrating, intricate, and lengthy. But real estate professionals involved in public/private partnerships say they can also be rewarding. |
BusinessWeek
July 30, 2007
Dawn Kopecki |
Why Fannie And Freddie Are Fidgety The financial giants are loaded down with dicey loans as defaults increase. |
National Real Estate Investor
August 1, 2005
Charles R. Werhane |
The Little Tax Credit That Keeps On Giving In an era of declining subsidies and mounting funding gaps, developers have begun turning in a new direction for assistance -- the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC). Why would investors put their money in these tax credits? |
Mother Jones
Mar/Apr 2000
Arthur Allen |
Prodigal Sun Solar energy was a rising star in the '70s -- until it was banished by the powers that be. Are we ready for its return? |
National Real Estate Investor
February 1, 2005
Stan Luxenberg |
Is Senior Housing the Next Comeback Kid? Erickson, who is CEO of Baltimore-based Erickson Retirement Communities, has big plans. Currently operating 13 projects, he expects to go on a building spree in the next five years that will raise his total number of developments to 40. |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2007
Donald Jay Korn |
Real Estate Roundup Financial advisors should understand that the deflation of the real estate bubble presents investors with tough choices -- and intriguing opportunities. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Jan/Feb 2014
Myers et al. |
Healthy Seniors Housing Investor demand revitalizes this niche sector. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2005 |
Mutual Fund Monitor The real costs of a housing bubble. |
U.S. Banker
September 2008
John Engen |
Future Shock Where to start when trying to figure out how the banking industry got into the mess it's in today? And where, exactly, do we go from here? |
U.S. Banker
July 2005 |
Hey (Freddie) Mac, Can You Spare a Mortgage? Never mind the rising interest rates. The quasi-government firms are rolling out products aimed at low- and mid-income workers to help them become first-time homeowners. They've got banks' attention. But the stock price for both companies has plummeted this year. |
National Real Estate Investor
September 1, 2007 |
Viability of Affordable Housing Threatened Hundreds of affordable apartment communities built using Low Income Housing Tax Credits are now in financial jeopardy due to a combination of significantly increasing operating and utility costs and stagnant rents. |
