Klein Hornig’s mission is to provide peerless legal expertise and service to the affordable housing community.

The principals of Klein Hornig have been a part of that community for as long as we’ve been lawyers. From meeting with anxious tenants in crowded apartments, to lining up financing, to designing and implementing strategies that satisfy a wide range of stakeholders, to helping set the direction of a major federal urban revitalization program and a pre-eminent nonprofit housing organization, we have shared directly in the challenges and the rewards of those who are now our clients.

We know that those individuals and organizations that have dedicated themselves to developing, operating and preserving affordable housing and other community assets need lawyers as dedicated as they are—lawyers with command of every technical tool available, and with the understanding and commitment needed to apply those tools efficiently and creatively. Lawyers who know relevant law intimately, and who have the highest standards of quality control.

We know that anyone who heads a project team needs lawyers in whom he or she can have unqualified confidence that whatever they hand off gets done rightÜdone right so that approvals from other parties and regulators come quickly, so that legal structures work for their stakeholders not only at closing but for years to come. They need lawyers who know when a cutting-edge solution is needed, and when a tried-and-true answer will do just fine and be more cost-effective too; lawyers who know when to aggressively assert the client’s interests and when the client’s real interests are best served by finding a common ground.

We are those lawyers. Klein Hornig lawyers never lose sight of the fact that the end products we and our clients are working to create are housing units and community institutions—not paper—and we approach our work accordingly.

We focus on:
• HOPE VI, Mixed-Finance and Public Housing
• Affordable housing development utilizing the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit and other federal programs, including HOME, CDBG, AHP and Section 8
• Preservation, refinancing and revitalization of the current stock of affordable housing
• Affordable homeownership
• Community economic development

We serve:
• Nonprofit organizations, including neighborhood CDCs, tenant groups and regional/national intermediaries and developers
• For-profit developers, lenders and investors
• Housing authorities, municipalities and other governmental institutions

Our practice includes:
• Business organizations, including for-profit and nonprofit corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint ventures and trusts
• Condominiums, homeowner associations and cooperatives
• 501(c)(3) law
• Tax-exempt bond financing
• Purchase and sale of real estate
• Title and conveyancing
• Deed covenants and affordability restrictions
• Architect and construction contracts
• Residential and commercial leasing
• Zoning, urban planning and land use
• Regulatory and legislative advocacy
• Administrative enforcement
• Fair housing