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Housing Finance

Bridging the Gap: A Primer on Affordable Housing Finance

A map of the affordable housing finance system for everyone who has sat in a room full of housing people and wondered whether they were the only one who felt lost.

March 2026
Housing Policy

Our Best Affordable Housing Tool Has a Problem

The LIHTC program has financed 3.5 million homes. But the small developers best positioned to close the remaining gap can't get through the door.

March 2026
Placemaking

What Main Streets Got Right Before Anyone Thought to Study Them

Decades before "placemaking" became a planning buzzword, Main Street programs were quietly rebuilding local economies from the ground up. The lessons still apply.

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