David A. Davenport and Samuel T. Johnson, Year-15 Disputes in the Low-Income Tax Credit Program, Aggregators, and Their Playbooks, 31 A.B.A. Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law 59 (2022) The federal government’s Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program has been exposed to a troubling trend in recent history. The [...]

The U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston on Wednesday ruled that a Denver investment firm failed to prove its fight with a South End housing nonprofit belongs in federal court. “Refined to bare essence, this is a dispute over a contract,” the three-judge panel said in their decision. And that [...]

By Theresa Schliep  Law360 (October 14, 2021, 6:27 PM EDT) -- A suit from an investment group contesting an affordable housing not-for-profit's efforts to purchase a housing tax credit project was properly dismissed by a Massachusetts federal court, the First Circuit said, ruling the lower court lacked jurisdiction.  A [...]

The Boston law firm Nixon Peabody has built a national reputation in affordable housing — advising nonprofits and developers, churches and housing authorities. The firm boasts lawyers who’ve had a hand in “every major federal affordable housing initiative in the last 40 years.” But Nixon Peabody also has become the [...]