February 7, 2023

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Eastern

Affordable Housing Webinar - Creating Affordable Housing: Madison’s Experience

Creating affordable housing is a major challenge for municipalities everywhere. In addition to the politics, financing affordable housing deals requires combinations of lending programs and creative solutions to fill financing gaps. This presentation will discuss the problems in creating and financing affordable housing for families and students, and methods the City of Madison, Wisconsin has been using to solve these issues including tax incremental financing, the creation of an affordable housing fund, and permitting density in exchange for affordability.

Speaker: Kevin Ramakrishna

Kevin Ramakrishna is a shareholder at the law firm of Reinhart, Boerner, Van Deuren in Madison working in the real estate practice group. Prior to that, he was an Assistant City Attorney for the City of Madison for ten years serving as the City’s attorney in the areas of real estate, economic development and finance. He received his undergraduate degree from Marquette University in History, and his law degree and LL.M. from Albany Law School. He is licensed to practice in New York and Wisconsin. He is a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin.