Publications

Awards

Affordable Housing Hall of Fame

Inducted into the Affordable Housing Hall of Fame in 2008 by Affordable Housing Finance to recognize his outstanding achievement in the housing industry. View Details

Affordable Housing and Low Income Housing Tax Credits

This background note explores the basic themes surrounding the government's approach to providing housing: namely its shift from a supplier and builder of affordable housing to an approach that focuses on demand-side solutions and indirect subsidies to private... View Details

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Affordable housing resources

Where can I begin my research on affordable housing in the United States? Resource Type Suggested Resources Research Guides and Databases These guides highlight the top Baker Library resources to... View Details

06 May 2015
News

Advocating for affordable housing

Laurie Gould (MBA 1996) puts the skills she gained at HBS to work at Viva Consulting, the practice she launched to promote community development. (Published May 2015) View Details

June 2014 (Revised April 2015)
Background Note

Affordable Housing and Low-Income Housing Tax Credits in the United States

By: Arthur I Segel and Nicolas P. Retsinas

This background note explores the basic themes surrounding the government's approach to providing housing: namely its shift from a supplier and builder of affordable housing to an approach that focuses on demand-side solutions and indirect subsidies to private... View Details

Keywords: Housing; Welfare; Government and Politics

28 Jan 2014
News

The $300 House

Keywords: affordable housing; urban poor; rural poor

11 Dec 2017
News

A Pioneer of Affordable Housing

Ross Freeman (PMD 30, 1975) launched Pioneer Group in 1997 to turn historic buildings into affordable housing and office space in the American Midwest. “I had never really thought about being a real estate... View Details

August 2016
Teaching Note

Mahindra Lifespace Developers' Venture into Affordable Housing

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Monica Baraldi

Mahindra Lifespace Developers Limited (MLDL) was the infrastructure and real estate arm of the Mahindra Group, an Indian conglomerate with revenues of $16.5 billion in 2014. Employing 400 experts in land acquisition, design, project management, sales and marketing, and... View Details

Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Business Startups; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Housing; Emerging Markets; Business and Government Relations; Human Needs; Social Issues; Urban Development; Real Estate Industry; India

02 Jul 2015
News

Public-Private Alliance Can Solve Affordable Housing Crunch

October 2016 (Revised October 2017)
Case

Phipps Houses and the Future of Affordable Housing in NYC

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Lisa A. Chase

April 2022
Case

Phipps Houses and the Future of Affordable Housing in NYC

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Courtney Han

January 2015 (Revised August 2016)
Case

Mahindra Lifespace Developers' Venture into Affordable Housing

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Vidhya Muthuram

February 2015
Supplement

The Affordable Care Act (A): Legislative Strategy in the House of Representatives

By: Joseph L. Bower and Michael Norris

In early 2009, the Obama administration and the Democratically-led Congress began working on what would eventually become the Affordable Care Act. The (A) case in this series discusses the legislative strategy in the House of Representatives, where three different... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Policy; Government And Politics; Government Administration; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States

June 2014
Teaching Note

Via Verde

By: Arthur I Segel

Developers Jonathan Rose and Adam Weinstein were trying to determine which of three proposals to submit to the city of New York in response to a RFP to create an affordable housing project in the South Bronx. The site, referred to as Via Verde, was a 1.5-acre... View Details

Keywords: Affordable Housing; Property; Real Estate Industry; United States

1997
Article

Trading the Poor: Intermunicipal Affordable Housing Negotiation in New Jersey

By: M. A. Wheeler, J. Gilbert and P. Field

Keywords: New Jersey

1990
Chapter

Resolving Local Regulatory Disputes and Building Consensus for Affordable Housing

By: M. A. Wheeler

Keywords: Housing; Government and Politics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Local Range; Conflict and Resolution; Negotiation; Construction Industry

June 2014 (Revised November 2015)
Case

Via Verde

By: Arthur I Segel, Nicolas P. Retsinas, Philip Berkman, Sean Liu, Jared Katseff and Shawn Tuli

Developers Jonathan Rose and Adam Weinstein were trying to determine which of three proposals to submit to the city of New York in response to a RFP to create an affordable housing project in the South Bronx. The site, referred to as Via Verde, was a 1.5-acre... View Details

Keywords: Jonathan Rose Companies; Affordable Housing; Property; Real Estate Industry; United States

04 Jul 2010
News

Housing bust's severity surprising

February 2015
Supplement

The Affordable Care Act (G): The Final Votes

By: Joseph L. Bower and Michael Norris

In the fall of 2009, the House and Senate each voted to pass health reform bills. These bills then had to be combined into the Affordable Care Act and the ACA had to be passed by both houses. Reconciliation had to be used because of Republican Scott Brown's Senate... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Policy; Government And Politics; Health; Policy; Health Industry; United States