Jan 30, 2015
The 2015 Goldfarb & Lipman Annual Legislative Update provides a summary of recently enacted legislation that will impact areas of concern to our clients, including: real estate transactions, affordable housing, land use, municipal law, community economic...
Dec 22, 2014
On December 19, President Obama signed into law H.R. 5571, which provides for the one-year extension of a number of different federal tax programs, including the New Markets Tax Credit (“NMTC”) program. Click here to read more.
Dec 11, 2014
Although redevelopment agencies have been dissolved, obligations to report on housing activities by housing successors continue. Housing successors (those entities that assumed the housing assets and functions of the former redevelopment agency) must report annually...
Oct 1, 2014
On September 29, 2014, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law SB 1203 and AB 1760, effective January 1, 2015, which ban payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) agreements between local governments and owners of low income housing developments. Click here to read more.
Aug 14, 2014
ABBA may have sung “it is a rich-man’s world,” but recent efforts by affordable housing advocates have resulted in significant new state funding for affordable housing. Now that the funds have been dedicated, the next steps and challenges this Fall...
Aug 11, 2014
On August 7, 2014, in Tuolumne Jobs & Small Business Alliance v. Superior Court (“Tuolumne”), the California Supreme Court unanimously agreed that the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) does not apply to voter-sponsored...
