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Henry Walther

Housing Finance Fellow

Henry Walther is a first year Master’s in City Planning student at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, focusing on housing policy and finance. Before MIT, he spent four years working for the City of New Orleans, most recently as the Director of Policy and Data for the Mayor’s Office of Community Assets and Investment, where he directed land use policy reforms and supported the redevelopment of City-owned properties into affordable housing. He holds a BA in Political Science and Social Policy from Tulane University.

Reports

A new class of supply-focused housing investment programs

Read the full report here. Executive Summary When the housing tax credit program began in the late 1980s, few anticipated it would reach today’s scale, facilitating more than sixty thousand new units of multifamily housing per year, approaching 20% of the nation’s annual multifamily starts.  The scale of the programs employed by housing agencies across […]

Posts

States expand revolving loan funds for mixed-income housing

Over the past year, a growing number of state governments have capitalized revolving loan funds (RLFs), empowering their housing finance agencies to finance mixed-income housing outside of the typical LIHTC pipeline. In a blog post last September and a report published in December, we covered the initial round of investments in Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, […]

The $169 Billion Challenge: Preserving America’s Public Housing

Estimating the Cost to Preserve the Nation’s Public Housing A new report, “Estimating the Cost to Preserve the Nation’s Public Housing,” calculates the baseline cost to preserve the nation’s existing 899,047 units of public housing. Authored by the 10 Year Roadmap for Public Housing Sustainability and the Public and Affordable Housing Research Corporation (PAHRC), the […]