Darryl Hicks Author Archives

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

Volunteers of America, headquartered in Alexandria, VA, has dedicated itself to improving the lives of America’s most susceptible citizens: veterans, low-income seniors, children and families, the homeless, those with intellectual disabilities, those recovering from addiction and the formerly incarcerated.

Founded in 1973 by Michael J. Levitt, The Michaels Organization, Marlton, NJ, ranks among the nation’s largest private-sector developers and owners of affordable housing.

Inspired by the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King and Senator Robert Kennedy in 1968, Robert Davenport has spent most of his life examining the root causes of racism and poverty in America and advocating for policies that encourage positive change in America’s most distressed cities and neighborhoods.

Jeffrey Woda grew up in rural eastern Ohio, separated from Wheeling, WV by the Ohio River, the son and grandson of homebuilding contractors. He left the area to become a CPA and was employed for a time by Ernst and Young, working with construction companies, financial institutions and other corporate entities.

State Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credits provide a valuable source of funding for developers who specialize in revitalizing older buildings. However, they also pose challenges for the uninitiated.

The Pacific Companies, headquartered in the bucolic community of Eagle, Idaho, has developed 10,000 units of multifamily housing over its 20-year existence—90 percent of it affordable—in some of the remotest parts of the western United States as well as in its largest urban centers.

Over his career, Ken Lore has advised some of the nation’s largest real estate owners, developers and financial institutions, and distinguished himself as a top legal mind in affordable housing.

Larry Kraemer, executive vice president at Harkins Builders, can talk all day about budgets, preconstruction services and construction materials and labor – and why affordable housing is no longer affordable to build.

New York City is undergoing the most audacious expansion of affordable housing in a generation, planning to add 200,000 units of new affordable housing over ten years. The idea came from Mayor Bill de Blasio, who announced his Housing New York plan after winning the election in 2014.

John Weld Peck has been at the forefront of affordable housing finance in the United States for over 40 years.

Among the many innovative housing programs devised by the Obama Administration was the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD), which Congress authorized in 2012 to test a new way of meeting the large and growing capital improvement needs of the nation’s aging public housing stock.

Imagine the confusion if the bosses of the company you worked for changed every four to eight years, while most of the rest of the staff remained.