Anthony Freedman

Anthony S. Freedman joined Holland & Knight as a partner in 2006. He has practiced law for 29 years in Washington, D.C., and previously served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Housing Policy and Budget at HUD from 1978 to 1981.

Mr. Freedman’s practice consists of transactional, financial, policy and regulatory matters involving housing. His areas of expertise include federal, state and local housing assistance programs, low-income housing tax credits, public housing privatization, tax-exempt finance, mortgage finance, military housing and limited partnership law.

Mr. Freedman has been involved with the low-income housing tax credit program since its adoption as part of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, and his experience extends to the tax credit exchange and tax credit assistance programs enacted in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. He currently provides regular advice and counsel to more than a dozen state housing credit agencies and has rendered leading opinions on such diverse tax credit matters as the treatment of interest reduction payments under HUD’s Section 236 ”decoupling” program, the timing of issuance and redemption of tax exempt bonds for purposes of obtaining tax credits without an allocation and the treatment of public housing operating subsidies received under the HOPE VI program. He has worked on more than 1,000 LIHTC transactions and recently represented the investor and syndicator in the largest such transaction ever closed. Mr. Freedman is the author of The Essential Guide to Housing Credit Compliance.

HCC24 Sessions:
Ask the Legal and Accounting Experts
Tax-Exempt Bond Structuring Strategies

HCC22 Session: Closing Plenary Session: Housing Credit Preservation Forum

HFAi22 Sessions:
Acquisition/Rehab and Resyndication Compliance Primer
Understanding Housing Credit Preservation Challenges

Recent NCSHA Conference Presentations:

HC Connected 2020 Presentation: The Future of Housing Credit Development