January 13, 2015
Housing Subsidies For Those Who Need Them
The National Low Income Housing Coalition has posted Aligning Federal Low Income Housing Programs with Housing Need. The Executive Summary goes right to the heart of the matter: The number of renters in the United States has steadily increased since … Continue reading
January 13, 2015 in Tax matters | Permalink | No Comments
January 24, 2014
Preserving Low-Income Housing
NYC Mayor De Blasio announced an aggressive goal of producing and preserving 200,000 units of affordable housing over the next ten years. New York City will need to be as creative as possible to achieve this goal and will need … Continue reading
January 24, 2014 in Tax matters | Permalink | No Comments
January 10, 2014
Tax Incentives for Sustainable Homeownership
Harris, Steuerle and Eng have published New Perspectives on Homeownership Tax Incentives in Tax Notes. The report presents three tax reforms designed to promote homeownership that are fundamentally different from earlier proposals. Many of those earlier proposals would convert existing … Continue reading
January 10, 2014 in Tax matters | Permalink | No Comments
December 16, 2013
Reiss on “Sexy Tax Breaks” for Luxury Housing
MainStreet.com quoted me in Luxury Real Estate with Sexy Tax Breaks. The story reads in part, Buying a high end property doesn’t always cost a fortune for the wealthy especially if there are tax breaks attached. debt payments actual Property … Continue reading
December 16, 2013 in Tax matters | Permalink | No Comments
December 10, 2013
Imposing Order on Recording Chaos
Dale Whitman has posted A Proposal for a National Mortgage Registry: MERS Done Right. This is great timing because he will be touching on some of the issues raised in this article in tomorrow’s webinar. His proposal for a national … Continue reading
December 10, 2013 in Tax matters | Permalink | No Comments
September 30, 2013
Borden & Reiss on REMIC Failure, in a Big Way
Brad and I posted REMIC Tax Enforcement as Financial-Market Regulator to SSRN (as well as to BePress). The article is forthcoming in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Business and it provides our extended analysis of how the … Continue reading
September 30, 2013 in Tax matters | Permalink | No Comments
July 22, 2013
Dirty REMICs, Revisited
Brad and I have posted, Dirty REMICs, Revisited (also on BePress). The abstract reads: We review the differences between two visions for the residential mortgage markets, one driven by the goal of efficiency and the other driven by the goals … Continue reading
July 22, 2013 in Tax matters | Permalink | No Comments
