- American Property
Financing
- American Property Financing is an industry
leader in providing financing for the acquisition, refinancing and new
construction of affordable and market rate multifamily properties and senior
housing. The firm has experts in tax-exempt bond and Low Income Housing Tax
Credit transactions. APF is a "Top Five" Fannie Mae DUS Lender and also offers
Freddie Mac and FHA programs.
Contact: Jay Helfrich
jhelfrich@apfmultifamily.com
- California Association of Local
Housing Finance Agencies (CAL-ALHFA)
- CAL-ALHFA is a non-profit organization
working with state lawmakers and industry porfessionals in supporting the
development and preservation of affordable housing in California.
Contact:
Mary E. Shay meshay@sna.com
- California Housing Partnership Corporation (CHPC)
- California Housing Partnership Corporation helps nonprofit organizations and government agencies create, acquire, preserve and manage affordable housing for lower income households.
- California
Tax Credit Allocation Committee (TCAC)
- "TCAC" administers federal and state tax
credit programs providing investment in affordable rental housing for
lower-income families and individuals. Tax credits allocated by TCAC assist in
the creation and preservation of affordable housing by enabling project
sponsors to raise equity through the sale of tax benefits to investors.
- Cox, Castle
& Nicholson, LLP
- Cox, Castle & Nicholson has a focus on the
representation of business, institutions, governmental entities, and
individuals involved in all aspects of the real estate. CCN public finance attorneys have extensive experience in the
fields of bonds and municipal finance, public law, real estate finance, land
use and development, letters of credit, securities, insurance of securities,
and regulatory matters.
- Housingfinance.com
- HousingFinance.com provides information regarding public and
private sources of financing and refinancing for affordable housing
construction and redevelopment, community and economic development, market-rate
multifamily construction, historic preservation and assisted housing.
Contact:
ahf@housingfinance.com
- Housing
Industry Foundation
- HIF is a non-profit offering assistance to
families in need emergency housing grants and security deposit loans. HIF also
provides assistance to local shelter programs.
Contact: Deborah Wade
debbie@housingindustryfoundation.org
- National Association of Local
Housing Finance Agencies (NALHFA)
- NALHFA, is the national association
working to finance affordable housing in the broader community development
context at the local level. It is an advocate before Congress and federal
agencies on legislative and regulatory issues affecting affordable housing and
provides technical assistance and educational opportunities to its members and
the public.
Contact: Lesley Zimmerman
lesley_zimmerman@nalhfa.org
- Nixon Peabody
- Nixon Peabody is a global law firm with an extensive real estate and public finance practice.
The firm represents developers, nonprofits, and syndicators, as well as issuers, in the financing or refinancing
of affordable housing projects, either through public offerings or private placements of tax-exempt or taxable bonds.
Nixon Peabody is ranked among the top 10 underwriters' counsel in bond markets by Thomson Reuters. The firm represents
housing authorities on the development and redevelopment of public housing projects using low-income housing tax
credits, and advises private investors, borrowers, developers and institutional lenders on all types of financing
transactions, including purchase and sale of loans, equity participations, CMBS, CDOS, and mezzanine debt, loan
restructuring and workouts.
Contact: Gary Downs, Esq.
gdowns@nixonpeabody.com
- Novogradac & Company LLP
- Novogradac & Company LLP is a national
consulting and certified public accounting firm that is a recognized leader in
the affordable housing industry. The firm provides a full spectrum of attest,
tax, valuation, market research and consulting services to affordable housing
developers, syndicators, lenders and investors.
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Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
- Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman is one of the leading affordable housing and community
development practices in the United States. The firm advises developers on issues that arise during
the course of structuring multifamily transactions, such as
joint ventures and other forms of entity structuring, low-income housing and historic tax credit law, new
markets tax credit initiatives, public disclosure requirements, real estate issues and regulatory issues, as
well as state-specific concerns such as land use and planning law, subdivision matters, community
redevelopment law and California Constitution Article XXXIV matters.
- The Public Policy Institute of California
- The Public Policy Institute of California is dedicated to improving public policy in
California through independent, objective, non-partisan research on major economic, socia, and political issues.
PPIC Statewide Survey: Special Survey on
Californians and Their Housing, November 2004
- Reason Public Policy Institute
- Reason Public Policy Institute is a
public policy think tank promoting choice, competition, and a dynamic market economy as the foundation for human
dignity and progress. The thought provoking RPPI report:
Housing Supply and Affordability (4/15/04) states in part: "A very popular affordable housing policy is
"inclusionary zoning" which mandates builders to sell some homes at below-market rates. A new RPPI policy study looks at the data and finds that inclusionary zoning backfires, leading to less housing and higher prices."
- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ("HUD")
- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ("HUD") increases homeownership, supports
community development, and increases access to affordable housing free from discrimination. To access HUD income limits
and fair market rents, released annually, visit:
http://www.huduser.org/datasets/il.html
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