David M. Abromowitz Author Archives

ICAST’s IRA & BIL Instant Benefit Estimate Calculator is now available on NH&RA’s website under the Resources section.

If 20 years ago you had told a young Henry Santana that someday he would run for Boston City Council, the recent immigrant from the Dominican Republic growing up in public housing would have thought you were playing a joke on him.

Succession is not just a challenge of the C-suite.

Developers, like renown bank robber Willy Sutton, naturally go where the money is. Yet for far too long, one place they have not been able to go as a potentially huge source of money to create quality affordable housing has been health care. That may be changing, and for the better.

When HUD took its seat at the President’s table back in 1965, issues of race and equality were on the front pages daily, and the challenges facing American cities had become a priority. One of HUD’s first Secretaries, George Romney, embodied the spirit that it could tackle those challenges. He championed desegregation and a strong urban policy emphasizing region-wide solutions.

As of Tax Day, at least four major candidates have declared they are running for President. By the time we get to NH&RA’s Summer Institute, we could have a baker’s dozen or more candidates.

A recent article in Multihousing Pro, entitled “The Incredible Shrinking Tradesman,” highlighted what many in the affordable housing development world already understand first hand: A generation of construction workers is leaving the workforce, and no one knows just how we will replace them.

As the Greatest Generation moves through their 80s and 90s, and as millions of Baby Boomers turn 65 each year, suitable, affordable housing options for older Americans become more pressing. But as a recent Joint Center for Housing Studies report demonstrates in statistical depth, those options are far from existing in sufficient numbers and variations.