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Affordable Housing 101, LLC1112 16th Street NW, Suite 700
Washington, D.C. 20036
United States
A training company in Washington, D.C.
Housing compliance, taught the way it’s actually used.
Affordable Housing 101 trains the property managers, compliance officers, and asset managers who keep LIHTC, HUD multifamily, and Fair Housing programs in good standing. We translate the regulation into the work — recertifications, file reviews, audit prep — and we teach for the people who actually do them.
Trained at
- Mission Heights Communities
- Beacon Residential
- Old Town Capital
- Three state HFAs
- + 142 mid-market owners
Course 01 · About the practice
We were tired of compliance training written for the regulator.
Affordable Housing 101 was founded in Washington, D.C., in 2017 by two housing-credit specialists and a fair-housing instructor who agreed on one small idea: most compliance training is written for the regulator, not for the file clerk. Our courses are taught by working compliance practitioners — people who still pull files, read leases, and answer the phone when an examiner calls.
The curriculum is small on purpose. We re-write each course against the year's regulatory changes, and we publish only what we'd be willing to teach to our own teams. We are an IRS-Approved CE Provider; our courses are accepted toward SHCM, HCCP, NCP-E, and a handful of state-specific designations.
“If a course can’t be used in the leasing office on Monday morning, we don’t teach it.”
- 2017 Year founded
- 9,800+ Practitioners trained
- 52 U.S. jurisdictions covered
- 96% Course-completion rate
Course 02 · Curriculum
Six courses, written each year against the rules.
Every course earns continuing-education credit and is taught by current practitioners. Tuition includes the live sessions, recordings, materials, and a certificate on completion.
- AH-100 Open enrollment
LIHTC Basics for Property Managers
Section 42 fundamentals: set-asides, AMI and income limits, rent calculation, utility allowances, household composition, and the calendar year that runs your file room.
Ask the registrar - AH-200 Filling fast
HOTMA Implementation
Implementing the Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act for HUD multifamily owners — eligibility, asset limitations, and the new income calculations in plain English.
Ask the registrar - AH-220 Open enrollment
Section 8 / Project-Based Rental Assistance
HUD Handbook 4350.3 in practice. EIV, recertifications, repayment agreements, and the file mistakes that lead to MORs you don't want.
Ask the registrar - AH-300 Always available
Fair Housing Practitioner Track
Fair Housing Act, ADA, and Section 504 in the language of the leasing office: reasonable accommodation, modification requests, marketing rules, and complaint response.
Ask the registrar - AH-410 Cohort 26-D
LIHTC Audit Preparation
A two-day intensive on preparing for state HFA file audits and IRS Section 42 examinations. We work from real findings, redacted, year by year.
Ask the registrar - AH-500 By inquiry
On-Site Workshops & Custom
Curriculum delivered at your portfolio, calibrated to your software, your forms, and the specific jurisdictions you operate in. Engagements scoped to need.
Ask the registrar
Course 03 · Who teaches
A small faculty. Small on purpose.
Every course is taught by someone who still does the work. We keep the roster small because the curriculum is small, and because we'd rather decline a cohort than staff one we can’t teach well.
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Renée K. Marshall, HCCP, SHCM
Founding principal · LIHTC compliance
Sixteen years at two state HFAs. Trained the LIHTC compliance staff at four mid-size portfolio owners. Believes in checklists.
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James “Jim” Okafor, NCP-E, FHC
Faculty · Fair Housing & Section 504
Former HUD FHEO investigator. Twenty-one years training leasing offices on Fair Housing complaints — and how to avoid them.
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Aiyana Begaye, COS
Faculty · HUD multifamily
Spent a decade running compliance for a 4,400-unit portfolio across four HUD field offices. Quoted in the Handbook footnotes.
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Derek Espinosa-Hill, J.D.
Of counsel · Regulation
Affordable-housing attorney by training. Reads the Federal Register so the rest of the faculty doesn't have to.
Course 04 · Free resources
Tools the file room actually uses.
We publish a small library of pocket cards, calculators, and plain-English explainers. Free, no email gate, updated each year.
- PDF
2026 Income & Rent Limits — Pocket Card
Federal AMI tiers and the calculations behind them, on one printable card.
Available on request - Tool
Utility-Allowance Calculator
A spreadsheet that follows the Treasury method. We update it every February.
Available on request - Glossary
Plain-English LIHTC Glossary
Two hundred terms, one paragraph each, written for someone who has been on the job for two weeks.
Available on request - Memo
HOTMA Memo — what changed, what didn't
A four-page memo for owners and managers; includes the implementation calendar.
Available on request
To receive any of the resources above, write to hello@affordablehousing101.com with the title in the subject line. We reply within one business day.
Course 05 · Contact & enrollment
Reach the registrar.
Enrollment opens four weeks before each cohort and closes when the seats are filled. We answer correspondence within one business day and we don't send marketing follow-ups to people who haven't asked for them.
1112 16th Street NW, Suite 700
Washington, D.C. 20036
United States
By line
- General hello@affordablehousing101.com
- Enrollments enroll@affordablehousing101.com
- Phone +1 (202) 555-0163
Hours
Monday through Friday, 9 to 6 Eastern. The office is closed on federal holidays. Enrollment confirmations are sent automatically; substantive replies arrive within one business day.