Affordable housing bonds

Mayors and city leaders are using a combination of bond financing and public private partnerships to build and preserve affordable housing while working with a patchwork of regulations and facing opposition.

To borrow an additional $70 billion, Mamdani would need state approval, said Howard Cure, director of municipal bond research at Evercore Wealth Management.

"This case involves the discovery of a massive Ponzi-like fraud orchestrated by former GHA executive director Robert Cappelletti," plaintiffs GHA and Greater Groton Realty Corp., a non-profit affiliate of the GHA, said in an April court filing. 

The bond panel approved $215 million in public facilities revenue bonds and $125 million in housing bonds.

This is the first time the Georgia Housing and Finance Authority is bringing a PAC tranche in several years.

Facing big demand for housing, the state's efforts to spur development have spurred litigation by cities challenging recent laws and a compliance crackdown.

Pops, a managing director at cfX, a municipal advisory firm serving housing finance agencies, brought passion and institutional knowledge to the sector.

The ratings agency is growing more pessimistic about the United States economy.

The state hopes bonds and associated incentives will help to address a state-wide housing shortage.

The Los Angeles-based fund manager has expanded into debt financing to offer affordable housing developer clients a lower cost of capital.

The nonprofit Wood River Community Housing Trust uses municipal bonds as part of its toolkit to finance workforce housing in the pricey Sun Valley, Idaho, area.

A $150 million housing bonds with a taxable component is anticipated for May and $110 million higher education student loan bonds are also anticipated for that month.

Amid struggling office markets in San Francisco and Los Angeles, the cities are exploring office-to-residential conversions amid decades-old housing shortages.

Issuers, trade organizations, and investors team up to fight the threat to the tax-exempt status of municipal bonds by laying out its effect on borrowing, the housing market, and infrastructure costs.

Redevelopment 3.0 should focus on providing a permanent, reliable source of equity with which to build a sustainable pipeline of affordable housing projects.

BRIDGE Housing Corp. is the first to publicly offer tax-exempt bonds to finance construction of a new development, a 224-unit project in Portland, Oregon.

After a strong jobs report this month drove mortgage rates higher, the Midwest is seeing more bonds financing loans to single-family and multifamily homebuyers.

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The measure would have requested $20 billion of bond authority from voters in nine San Francisco-area counties; backers said they would try in a later year.

St. John's Lutheran Church in Madison is redeveloping its property to build affordable housing blocks from the Capitol in the booming East Washington corridor.