Affordable housing

Experts are uncertain how significant the decline in multifamily housing bond issuance in 2018 might be.

Barbara Thompson stepped down at the end of 2017 after 16 years as executive director.

Mayor Keisha Bottoms said housing affordability, transparency, public safety, education, and transportation are priorities.

New York City’s newly elected officials outlined a progressive agenda topped by vows to tackle the housing affordability crisis.

The Vermont Housing Finance Agency is prepping the state’s first sustainability bond sale.

Freddie Mac is broadening its capital markets vehicles with its first offering of participation certificate securities backed by multifamily tax exempt loans.

With the fate of private activity bonds in flux, D.C.'s Housing Finance Agency is forging ahead with plans for its largest offering by the end of the year.

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.

Cities and counties will be able to form the new affordable housing districts starting in January.

The plan is up from the previously announced 200,000 homes.

The elimination of private activity bonds “would throw gasoline on a housing shortage," said John Chiang, California's treasurer.

The District of Columbia transaction may have potential on a national level.

The program to purchase and support affordable mortgages for New Yorkers will include an RBC unit and provisions for military veterans.

She said the plan was just one piece of a larger and more complex framework to address the city’s housing problem.

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.

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.

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.

New York State Assemblyman Robert Rodriguez, D-East Harlem, visits The Bond Buyer and touches on his initiatives pushing for more affordable housing units, Harlem’s economic renaissance with help from tax credits and the public finance background he brought to Albany. Hosted by Andrew Coen.