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Gauging the 2010 Market
Several leading affordable housing developers are bracing for a tough year while holding on to expectations that the lowincome housing tax credit (LIHTC) market will improve in 2010.
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Four technology trends that will change how you build and remodel.
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Is the lead carpenter system for you?
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People
Andrew I. Crossed has become a partner and executive vice president of Conifer Realty, a Rochester, N.Y.-based aff ordable development and management company operating in a fourstate region.
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Survival of the Fittest
LIKE RIVAL GAS STATIONS ON opposite corners, the price wars between Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae continue to benefit customers, with each agency picking its spots to steal market share from the other.
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Syndicator Eyes Return to Market
BOSTON Boston Financial Investment Management is preparing its first low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) fund since its change from MMA Financial.
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Energy Star raises the bar with tough new 2011 specs; asphalt roofing prices defy downturn; Pella scores high; more
Prevailing-wage rules complicate stimulus weatherization work; condo survives shaketable test; Minnesota requires fall-prevention screens in multi-unit dwellings; more

Turning Away from Fannie Mae
A s affordable housing developers get set to ramp up dormant projects, Fannie Mae's high rates on forward commitments are forcing many to look elsewhere for debt.

The Next Generation
Passionate about affordable housing, innovative, and enterprising are all fitting descriptions for AFFORDABLE HOUSING FINANCE's 2009 Young Leaders.

Silver Linings
From his Memphis, Tenn., office, Simon Wadsworth conjures the Oracle of Omaha when assessing the current environment.

Diversify or Die
Journalists today love to talk about the “changing roles” in their profession.
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Sealed crawlspace testing sheds new light on energy performance ; Advanta shuts down its credit cards; students win clean-energy prize for rice-husk insulation panels; more

The Gathering Storm
Call it the aftershock refi.

Latent Power
When Trinity Property Consultants began its search for revenue management software, it naturally turned to the industry’s two leading offerings, Rainmaker’s LRO and Real- Page’s YieldStar.
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Waiting Game
KEVIN LARAMIER IS THE director of student housing for Birmingham, Mich.-based brokerage firm Hendricks and Partners.
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