The 2018 mid-term elections gave both Democrats and Republicans something to like. The former now have control of the House of Representatives for the first time since 2010, while the latter have expanded - albeit slightly - their control of the Senate.
Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch used to walk the streets of his city asking the public, “How am I doing?” Had he run into Hall-of-Fame football coach (and New Jersey native) Bill Parcells, the answer would have been, “Mayor, you are what you record says you are!”
The “donut hole” in HUD’s coverage of the senior housing and healthcare continuum is for unlicensed, rental independent living (IL). HUD insures mortgage loans for skilled nursing and assisted living under the Section 232 program, but they limit the inclusion of unlicensed IL units in these projects to no more than 25% of the total.
Regular visitors to this space know that we have written periodically about HUD’s efforts to develop a new recapitalization program for its “second generation” Section 202 elderly housing projects. HUD moved closer to this goal earlier this month when it sponsored an online conference titled “RAD for PRAC Projects Listening Session”.
If you ask five mortgage (or investment) bankers to define an affordable housing project, you’ll likely get ten different answers! It seems like just about every multifamily capital source, from state housing authorities to tax-credit […]
In last month’s edition, we asserted that one year and change after the 2016 election, under the new administration HUD’s multifamily and healthcare mortgage insurance platforms continued to function effectively. This month, we provide some […]