Capabilities / Affordable Housing & Community Development
Strengthening communities, one unit at a time with affordable and low-income housing.
Husch Blackwell understands that the need for diverse multifamily housing creates opportunities for community growth and improvement. Our multidisciplinary legal team has worked on scores of market housing, affordable and low-income housing, and mixed-use properties.
We leverage our industry knowledge and relationships to help clients minimize up-front capital expenditures by utilizing federal, state, and local development incentives and financing opportunities. From builders to redevelopers to lenders, Husch Blackwell housing clients get deals closed.
Our guidance to clients in the affordable and low income housing sector includes:
- Community Housing Development Organization (CHDO)/nonprofit structures
- Energy tax credits
- Fair housing
- Historic tax credits, and layered transactions with LIHTC
- HOME and Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program
- HUD-insured multifamily financing
- Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC)
- Market-rate housing
- Mixed-income housing
- Public housing revitalization
- Regulatory compliance
- Senior and special-services housing
- Student housing
- Tax-exempt bond financing
- Urban redevelopment projects utilizing state and federal historic tax credits, tax increment financing (TIF) and tax abatements