The Legal Guide to Affordable Housing Development, Third Edition

The Legal Guide to Affordable Housing Development, Third Edition covers the most important areas of applicable law and provides a comprehensive overview of affordable housing laws. This continues to be a time of challenges for affordable housing, with the now-familiar mortgage and foreclosure crises resulting in a period of deep uncertainty and long-term adjustment. This timely third edition provides not only a past and future perspective from seasoned professionals, but also includes critical updates to all of the chapters from the second edition. New chapters have been added to address the greening of affordable housing, the unprecedented number of severely cost-burdened households and innovative state and local policy responses, and the mortgage crisis of 2008 and the rental crisis caused by COVID-19.

The Legal Guide to Affordable Housing Development is a clearly written, practical resource for attorneys representing local governments (municipalities, counties, housing authorities, and redevelopment agencies), housing developers (both for-profit and nonprofit), investors, financial institutions, and populations eligible for housing. With substantial cross-referencing between chapters and an extensive index for quick access to on-point information, the guide is organized into three separate parts.

Rochelle E. Lento is a member at Dykema Gossett PLLC in Detroit, spearheading the firm’s affordable housing practice in the Real Estate Group. She has worked in the area of affordable housing in Michigan and the Midwest for the past 30 years; representing primarily nonprofit developers, public housing commissions, and lenders. Rochelle has concentrated her practice on the development of real estate with the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, the Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit, CDBG and HOME, the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) Program ,and various HUD financing tools. She is a former chair of the ABA Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, chair of the Publications Committee, and co-editor of prior editions of this book.

Rigel Oliveri is the Isabelle Wade and Paul C. Lyda Professor of Law at the University of Missouri. She is a nationally recognized expert on housing discrimination law. Her scholarship focuses on housing discrimination, residential segregation, zoning and property rights, and sexual harassment. Prior to teaching she served as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division in the Housing and Civil Enforcement Section. She currently serves as a commissioner for the Columbia Housing Authority in Columbia, Missouri.