Multifamily Matters
Frost Brown Todd’s Multifamily Matters Blog provides relevant legal perspectives in several areas affecting multifamily housing, including acquisitions and dispositions, new development and construction, market trends, technology incorporation, affordable housing, tax credit financing, private equity, and lending. Our bloggers cover topics crucial to developers, investors, and lenders nationwide to keep you at the forefront of the multifamily industry in our footprint.
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July 2, 2024 | Blogs
As we enter the peak summer months, multifamily housing owners are sure to face the usual wave of in...
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June 18, 2024 | Blogs
Colorado continues to expand on recent legislative efforts to address the state’s housing shortage...
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June 12, 2024 | Blogs
Recent posts on our Multifamily Matters Blog examined several states’ responses to address the unp...
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June 7, 2024 | Blogs
Tennessee is the next state to follow a national trend and enact its own state low-income housing ta...
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June 4, 2024 | Blogs
Tornado season is again upon us, bringing with it the threat of catastrophic property damage, upende...
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May 23, 2024 | Blogs
Tornado season is again upon us, bringing with it the threat of catastrophic property damage, upende...
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May 21, 2024 | Blogs
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) recently designated “forever chemical...
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May 17, 2024 | Blogs
A recent Multifamily Matters blog post examined several state’s legislative efforts to address the...
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May 16, 2024 | Blogs
Businesses across all industries routinely have key employees leave and start competing businesses. ...
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May 14, 2024 | Blogs
Pre-development costs on multifamily housing projects can be expensive, and many projects in today...
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April 15, 2024 | Blogs
The United States is currently facing an unprecedented housing shortage. On March 21, 2024, the Bide...
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March 28, 2024 | Blogs
There is an unprecedented housing shortage in the United States. The Harvard Joint Center for Housin...
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March 20, 2024 | Blogs
The City of Los Angeles (the “City”) continues to implement new programs to tackle its ongoing h...
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February 2, 2024 | Blogs
It’s no secret that the United States is suffering from a historic housing shortage and it’s onl...
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January 22, 2024 | Blogs
Proposed Tax Bill Could Be a Game-Changer for Affordable Housing Nationwide by Increasing LIHTC Pool...
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November 21, 2023 | Blogs
*This article was originally published in Reuters Legal News on November 20, 2023. The rapid rise in...
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November 10, 2023 | Blogs
Commercial borrowers often use interest rate swaps to manage interest rate risk in loan transactions...
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October 30, 2023 | Blogs
On October 11, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed California Senate Bill 423 (SB 423) into law....
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October 12, 2023 | Blogs
Applications for the low-income communities bonus credit program (the “Bonus Program”) under Int...
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September 14, 2023 | Blogs
Update: California Gavin Newsome signed Senate Bill 423 into law. Click here to read the update. S...
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August 18, 2023 | Blogs
The state of Texas recently joined the ranks of nearly 30 other states in establishing its own state...
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August 4, 2023 | Blogs
This was originally published in Reuters Legal News (August 3, 2023). Over the past year, rising in...
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July 24, 2023 | Blogs
Universities and their students are demanding updated or new student housing. While this demand has ...
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July 19, 2023 | Blogs
Indiana’s recently enacted state low-income housing tax credit took effect on July 1, 2023. The Af...
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March 24, 2023 | Blogs
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear recently signed a bill that will provide more certainty for annual pr...
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March 17, 2023 | Failed-Bank Response Team
The recent failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank (the “Bank Failures”) created much...
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March 7, 2023 | Blogs
I. Introduction In recent years, the share of energy produced in the United States through solar pho...
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March 6, 2023 | Blogs
Earlier this year, the Biden administration (the “Administration”) published The White House Blu...
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February 21, 2023 | Blogs
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) recently announced enhanced radon testing requirements for...
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February 20, 2023 | Blogs
On January 6, 2023, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed House Bill 45, which contains two provisions th...
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October 3, 2022 | Blogs
*Lila Greiner contributed to this article while interning at Frost Brown Todd. Lila is a graduate of...
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May 26, 2022 | Failed-Bank Response Team
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on commercial leasing was immediate and severe. Landlords and te...
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April 20, 2022 | Blogs
The federal Opportunity Zone tax incentive program has facilitated substantial new investment in des...
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April 15, 2022 | Blogs
A proposed expansion of Kentucky’s Historic Preservation Tax Credit that we summarized in a prior ...
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March 29, 2022 | Blogs
Indiana recently enacted a state Affordable and Workforce Housing Tax Credit (the “Affordable Hous...
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March 17, 2022 | Blogs
An update to this post is available at Kentucky Historic Preservation Tax Credit Updates. A major e...
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February 19, 2022 | Blogs
This article was originally published on February 18, 2022 in Westlaw Today, an imprint of Thomson R...
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November 14, 2021 | Blogs
This article was originally published on November 12, 2021 in Westlaw Today, an imprint of Thomson R...
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October 8, 2021 | Blogs
In the multifamily industry, 4% low-income housing tax credits (“4% LIHTCs”) have long served as...
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August 28, 2021 | Blogs
This article was originally published on August 27, 2021 in Westlaw Today, an imprint of Thomson Re...
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April 27, 2021 | Blogs
Recent federal legislative efforts have the potential to produce a major boon for the multifamily in...
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April 14, 2021 | Blogs
With the help of legislators at the state and federal levels, the historic rehabilitation tax credit...
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January 21, 2021 | Coronavirus Response Team
The affordable housing industry has used 4% Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (“4% Credits”) to fin...
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August 11, 2020 | Coronavirus Response Team
The Louisville-Jefferson County Metro Government (“Louisville Metro”) has recently provided a po...
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June 30, 2020 | Coronavirus Response Team
As the COVID-19 pandemic has continued throughout the United States, the U.S. Department of Housing ...
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June 29, 2020 | Coronavirus Response Team
Affordable housing property owners and landlords of certain low-income tenants in Louisville-Jeffers...
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June 22, 2020 | Blogs
In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) recently issu...
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May 29, 2020 | Blogs
What is PACE financing? Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing, also called EPAD (Energy Pr...
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May 15, 2020 | Coronavirus Response Team
COVID-19 and the related stay-at-home orders issued by most states have created unprecedented uncert...
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April 20, 2020 | Coronavirus Response Team
Like other areas of commercial lending, loans insured by the Department of Housing and Urban Develop...
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March 27, 2020 | Coronavirus Response Team
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), a sweeping third-wave relief pac...
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March 27, 2020 | Coronavirus Response Team
Many larger commercial real estate loans, including those financing logistics, distribution, manufac...
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March 26, 2020 | Coronavirus Response Team
In addition to the actions taken by the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) and the Department of Housin...
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February 15, 2017 | Blogs
Enforcement of a new ordinance requiring property owners to register rental housing in Metro Louis...
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