Affordability Expiring On Nearly 200,000 U.S. Housing Units In Next 5 Years

July 11, 2023 / no comments

Hundreds of thousands of affordable rentals could convert to market-rate housing in the next five years because of expiring tax credits, according to a new study.
Around 180,000 units built with the federal government’s Low-Income Housing Tax Credit will be eligible to become market-rate housing by 2027, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing Moody’s Analytics data.
Without new agreements or new subsidies, the owners of 100,000 units annually, starting this year, could remove the income restrictions and dramatically raise rents.
“When these properties are exiting the program, there’s no legal avenue to force them to stay in it,” Kevin Rabin, director of litigation at Three Rivers…

Proptech Firm Latch Slashes Workforce Nearly 60%

July 11, 2023 / no comments

Proptech company Latch is laying off 59% of its U.S. and Taiwan-based workforce by November, or about 82 positions, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and putting new executives in place, including a new chief technology officer, chief financial officer, vice president of operations and other positions.
Jamie Siminoff, who founded Ring, a home security company that Amazon bought in 2018, is slated to become Latch’s CEO later this year.
The layoff announcement isn’t the first for the company, which announced cuts in May of about 130 positions over two weeks. Latch received a delisting notification from the Nasdaq…