Category: Tax credits

Month in Review, June 2009: Part 1, busted

14 July, 2009 (09:17) | Embryo house, Inclusionary zoning, Innovations, Month in review, Real estate taxes, Tax credits, US News | No comments

[Previous Months In Review available here: May 09, Apr 09, Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09]
 

Who, me? 
 
Busted things dominated June’s posts, a trend of which I was unaware until compiling the month-in-review.  June was busting up all over, starting with the sad spectacle of properties less costly demolished than boarded up, in Plowing it [...]

Re-engineering the LIHTC value chain: Part 3, it’s fixable

3 June, 2009 (09:45) | Capital markets, LIHTC, Legislation and policy, Policy, Tax credits, Theory, US News, Value Chain | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.]

So far, in the two posts expanding upon my analytical essay Rethinking and Reengineering the LIHTC Value Chain [.pdf, and worth downloading in full – Ed.], originally published on my for-profit company’s Web site and its email distribution list, we saw that (Part 1) [...]

Re-engineering the LIHTC value chain: Part 2, it may not self-repair

2 June, 2009 (11:32) | Capital markets, LIHTC, Legislation and policy, Policy, Tax credits, Theory, US News, Value Chain | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]

In yesterday’s post introducing my analytical essay Rethinking and Reengineering the LIHTC Value Chain [.pdf, and worth downloading in full – Ed.], originally published, via my for-profit company’s Web site and its email distribution list, we saw that the US’s multifamily rental affordable housing finance ecosystem got disrupted by [...]

Re-engineering the LIHTC value chain: Part 1, it’s broken

1 June, 2009 (13:40) | Capital markets, LIHTC, Legislation and policy, Policy, Tax credits, Theory, US News, Value Chain | 1 comment

 A little over a month ago we published, via my for-profit company’s Web site and its email distribution list, an analytical essay Rethinking and Reengineering the LIHTC Value Chain [.pdf, and worth downloading in full – Ed.] that seeks to change the US’s housing finance ecosystem for the better by sounding a wakeup call for [...]

Green grow the dollars

14 November, 2008 (09:41) | Energy savings, Housing, Policy, Tax credits, US News | No comments

Green is the new black, for three reasons identified by The Economist: 
A green-home boom is getting under way, thanks to:
 
1.  Rising energy prices
 

And rising …
 
2.  New standards (the European Union’s Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, Britain’s Code for Sustainable Homes and California’s Green Building Standards Code, to name three recent examples), and
 

Not just a [...]