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Cozen Cities - August 20, 2025

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BOSTON—City Deploys Sensors to Combat Rat Infestations - Boston officials announced the implementation of a new rodent-tracking sensor system throughout the city to provide data on hotspots and measure the effectiveness of...more

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HUD announces Scott Turner as new Secretary

On February 5, HUD announced that Scott Turner was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the 19th Secretary of HUD with a vote of 55-44. He was sworn in by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and he expressed his commitment...more

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Sustainable Development and Land Use Update 1.21.25

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Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order Tuesday safeguarding victims of the Los Angeles-area fires from predatory real estate investors. The executive order is designed to protect residents in fire-ravaged zip codes...more

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Orange County's AMI Jumps to $90,400 in 2024: What It Means for Affordable Housing

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The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently announced the 2024 Area Median Income (AMI) and Rent Limits for counties statewide. These numbers are impactful on a number of levels, but are extremely important...more

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DC Proposes Tax Abatement to Incentivize Conversion to Housing Development

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The District of Columbia’s office market, particularly Class B and C properties, is facing a calamity of epic proportions with occupancy, revenues, and valuations plummeting. Like other municipalities facing similar office...more

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White House Implements Plans to Facilitate Office-to-Residential Conversions

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Seyfarth Synopsis: With the cooperation of federal agencies such as the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Department of Transportation (DOT), the White House has established plans to use grants and...more

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HUD Announces 2023 AMI Income and Rent Limits: Orange County's AMI Rises to $84,700

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The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has released its 2023 AMI Income and Rent Limits, with Orange County’s AMI increasing from $80,100 to $84,700....more

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Sustainable Development and Land Use Update - 5.22.23

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As we reported in our prior legal alert, these important new state housing laws will allow for the streamlined approval of qualifying housing development projects on properties where retail, office and/or parking are...more

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House Passes FY2022 Omnibus Spending Bill; Next Up the Senate

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Summary - The U.S. House of Representatives passed an omnibus spending package on March 9, 2022, that contains all 12 fiscal year 2022 appropriations bills. Also included is supplemental funding to support Ukraine and...more

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Broad Street Brief: Councilmembers Quiñones-Sánchez and Gauthier Look to Reform Affordable Housing Requirements. Councilmember...

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CITY HALL - Councilmembers Quiñones-Sánchez and Gauthier Look to Reform Affordable Housing Requirements - New legislation proposed by Councilmembers Maria Quiñones-Sánchez and Jamie Gauthier is taking aim at how the city...more

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Congress Establishes the 4% Floor to Support Affordable Housing

Legislation signed into law on December 27, 2020, fixed the rate for the 30% present value low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC), which had dropped to a historic low of 3.07 in 2020, at 4% (the 4% Floor). Congress hopes that...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Gimme Shelter: An Overview on Low-Income Housing Tax Credits for Developers, Investors, and Lenders

"There are a few ways to obtain low-income housing tax credits. Each program has stress points in making it work, so there isn’t always a clear choice. Timing is often a decisive factor."...more

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California Housing Legislation (2017-2018)

State lawmakers passed over 1,200 bills this year, the most in more than a decade according to sources. Governor Brown signed 1,016 into law as of September 30th. Below is a summary of the bills signed into law regulating the...more

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HUD Secretary States: RAD – “We need to lift the cap”

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At the National Housing Conference 2017 Annual Policy Symposium on June 9, 2017, HUD Secretary Ben Carson delivered the keynote address and participated in a Q&A session with Chris Estes, President and CEO of NHC. While much...more

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HUD Publishes Further Revisions to RAD Notice

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In an announcement on January 12th, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published a significant third revision to the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) Notice (PIH 2012-32/ H 2017-03 Rev-3)....more

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Reaction to Uncertainty in Affordable Housing Industry Brought on by Trump Election

The 2016 Election has created more questions than answers for the affordable housing industry. Very little is known about President-elect Trump's vision for affordable housing. On one hand, Mr. Trump has described himself as...more

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HUD Issues Year-End Closing Deadlines for Mixed-Finance Deals

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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently issued a memo outlining its processing schedule for mixed-finance projects targeted to close by the end of 2016. According to HUD’s Office of Public Housing...more

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August 2016 Independent Contractor Misclassification and Compliance News Update

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This month’s news update includes three initiatives by the U.S. Department of Labor to combat IC misclassification. The first was the issuance of a new page on the DOL website called “Misclassification Mythbusters.” We...more

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Real Estate Market Intelligence: Multifamily Development Quarterly Report - Q2 2016

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Key Findings - The multifamily asset sector saw nearly $35.4 billion of investment sales activity for the first-quarter of 2016. This figure represents an 8.6% increase compared to the first-quarter of 2015 and...more

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PBV Selection Issues: Previous Competition and PHA-Owned Units

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Two of the most troublesome aspects of selecting project-based voucher proposals have been selection based on previous competition and selection of public housing agency-owned units. Originally published in the...more

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A Boost for Affordable Housing Developers

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In the last month, both the Supreme Court and the Federal Government have taken affirmative steps to combat housing discrimination, which may remove certain obstacles affordable housing developers have previously faced with...more

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Summary of HUD’s LEAN 232 Program Email Blast: Office of Residential Care Facilities (ORCF), February 2015

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In an effort to summarize the highlights of the LEAN Email Blasts that we receive, and rarely have time to review in a timely fashion, we at Pepper Hamilton are providing this quick synopsis of the latest LEAN update. Our aim...more

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Baltimore County renews focus on affordable housing development

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Earlier this week, the Baltimore County Department of Planning hosted a forum for the affordable housing development community as a part of its renewed commitment to expanding affordable housing opporunities in Baltimore...more

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