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Financing for affordable housing projects would face new barriers if Congress approves a House GOP tax bill that eliminates the tax exemption on private activity bonds. Todd A. Lee, CEO and executive director of the D.C. Housing Finance Agency discusses the importance of the exemption to advance affordable housing projects and how the sector is fighting to preserve this tool. Hosted by Andrew Coen.
November 28 -
Cities and counties will be able to form the new affordable housing districts starting in January.
November 27 -
The plan is up from the previously announced 200,000 homes.
November 15 -
The elimination of private activity bonds “would throw gasoline on a housing shortage," said John Chiang, California's treasurer.
November 9 -
The District of Columbia transaction may have potential on a national level.
October 13 -
The program to purchase and support affordable mortgages for New Yorkers will include an RBC unit and provisions for military veterans.
October 5 -
She said the plan was just one piece of a larger and more complex framework to address the city’s housing problem.
September 21 -
Oklahoma City voters supported a $75 million measure in a 2007 bond issue intended to bring quality jobs to town and to keep them here.
September 5 -
Despite repeatedly promising to address Houston's affordable housing needs, city officials sat for years on more than $30 million in voter-approved housing bonds.
July 17 - Finance and investment-related court cases
Federal prosecutors have asked Miami-Dade County to provide records of all affordable housing projects funded through a $137 million bond program that helps finance rental apartments for low-income people, according to a wide-ranging subpoena obtained Friday by the Miami Herald.
June 19