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Areas of Expertise

Affordable Housing

  • Single Family Homeownership (new construction and rehabilitation)
  • Multi-Family Rental
  • SRO Housing
  • Emergency Housing
  • Section 202 Housing
  • Shared Housing
  • Limited Equity Cooperative Conversions
  • Transitional Housing
  • Land Trusts
  • Mobile Home Parks
  • Tenant Management of Public Housing
  • LIHPRHA
  • Special Needs Housing
  • Low-Income Tax Credit Projects
  • Public Housing Restructuring

Economic Development

  • Representation of “Affordable Lenders”
  • Start-Up Businesses
  • Section 3 Employment
  • Business Opportunities for Lower Income Persons
  • Mixed Use Developments
  • Commercial Developments
  • Childcare Developments

Non-Profit Expertise

  • Entity Selection
  • Non-profit Mergers and Acquisitions
  • IRS Tax Matters for Non-Profit Organizations
  • Partnerships and Joint Ventures

Project Development Assistance

  • Helping non-profits to envision, structure, finance and operate a project
  • Serving as in-house counsel throughout a project’s duration
  • Helping to maximize resident participation in the project

Policy Analysis

  • Identifying critical community development policy issues
  • Crafting policy recommendations to maximize the preservation and production of affordable housing and facilitate more comprehensive community development
  • Disseminating relevant policy information throughout the state

Pennsylvania Housing Law Project

  • Landlord tenant law
  • Foreclosures
  • Fair housing
  • State and federal programs

Homeownership Emergency Mortgage Assistance Project (HEMAP) Help Center

  • Foreclosures
  • State mortgage assistance program

Pennsylvania Utility Law Project

  • Utility terminations and payment arrangements
  • Utility customer service obligations
  • Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
  • Landlord-Tenant related utility issues
  • Universal Service Programs including CAPs (Customer Assistance Programs) and LIURP (Low-Income Usage Reduction Programs)
  • Lifeline, Link-Up, and Universal Telephone Assistance Programs (UTAP)
  • Weatherization
   
   
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