Yesterday Ballard Spahr held its 9th annual National Housing Symposium in Washington, D.C.. The theme of the Symposium was “Beyond the Horizon: Housing and Community Development Strategies for the Future”. Government...more
Prior to 2009, housing finance agencies (HFAs) financed nearly all of their single-family mortgage loans with tax-exempt bond financings. Over the past five years as rates on conventional mortgage loans fell and remained at...more
Recently I have assisted several clients restructure the tax-exempt obligations originally issued to finance their affordable housing projects. The purpose of these restructurings has been for anything from reducing the...more