Mortgages

The plan would raise about $100 million a year to create and preserve affordable housing.

Undersubscribed funding opportunities are blocked by regulation.

"The shortage of accountants is not a brand new-issue, but it seems to be more thematic this year," said Richard Ciccarone, president emeritus of Merritt Research Services.

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.

Signature Bank owned nearly $15 billion of mortgages across four of New York's five boroughs, making it the largest lender to rent-regulated housing in the city.

"The Maryland SmartBuy program is designed to help first-time home buyers who have student loan obligations qualify for acquisition financing under the Maryland Mortgage Program," said the CFO of the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development. 

Steven Mahr moved to Chicago two years ago, and in March, he moved from Stifel to the city's finance department, where he's now happily tackling tough problems.

The bond plan, a key priority for Mayor Brandon Johnson, will be paid for with revenue gained by letting tax increment financing districts expire.

The Inflation Reduction Act, affordable housing and clean energy were among the topics discussed at Baker Tilly's DevelUP conference in Chicago this week.

The North Dakota Housing Finance Agency recently priced $189 million of bonds for its home mortgage finance program, a sector in which issuance has increased.