Our land use attorneys counsel private corporations and nonprofit organizations in all areas of affordable housing development.
We also leverage the firm’s expertise in government advocacy and lobbying in connection with project approvals, financing and site acquisitions—one key to success in the affordable housing world is adept navigation of the political and community interests.
Our work includes:
- Site acquisition
- Tenant relocation
- Real estate due diligence and acquisitions
- Corporate formation and restructuring
- Entitlements
- Financing
- Construction
- Litigation
- Public-private partnerships
- Owner participation agreements
- Inverse condemnation actions
- Land use covenants
- Sales and leasing documentation
- Condominium and association formation
- Disposition and development agreements and other pre-development and acquisition loan agreements
- Lending and financing vehicles
- Conventional lending
- Low- and moderate-income housing funds
- New market tax credits
- Four percent and nine percent low-income tax credits
- Tax increment financing
- Other local, state and federal financing programs
Our affordable housing work is complemented by expertise elsewhere at Allen Matkins in redevelopment and land use law, corporate, construction and tax law, as well as brownfields and environmental law.
EXPERIENCE
- Developer. Represented client in securing entitlements for affordable housing project in Marin County, California, and resolved easement and access issues relating to adjoining landowners.
- Developer. Represented client in entitlement due diligence, entitlement processing, affordable housing, and green building counseling for multi-family projects throughout California.
- Developer. Represented developer in securing approvals for large mixed-use affordable housing project in downtown Berkeley.
- Developer. Represented client in connection with the development of a 12 acre, 91 unit housing project, including negotiation of an affordable housing agreement, disposition and development agreement, owner participation agreement, land use approvals, and CEQA compliance.
- Developer. Represented multi-family residential developer in negotiations with City regarding scope of affordable housing unit project.
- Developer. Represented client in connection with the entitlement of one of the largest (if not the largest) residential development projects in the City of Pasadena. The project comprises 820 units, of which 110 are affordable to low- and moderate-income families.
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