Klein Hornig LLP - a law firm with attorneys in Boston and Washington specializing in affordable housing and community development law.

• Affordable Housing Finance
• HOPE VI/Mixed-Finance
• Condominiums/Cooperatives/Tenant Purchases
• Affordable Housing Preservation

Aaron O’Toole has represented clients in connection with numerous multifamily rehabilitation projects involving the full range of affordable housing finance tools. In addition to low income housing tax credit and tax exempt bond financing, he has been involved in the preservation of expiring use properties, the restructuring of troubled HUD financed properties, and in public housing/mixed finance developments. Aaron is also experienced in contracting for management, construction and design services, cooperative and condominium conversion, tenant purchases, title issues, receiverships, and general landlord tenant law. Aaron has also advised clients on issues related to tax exemption and nonprofit governance.

Before joining Klein Hornig LLP, Aaron served as Adjunct Faculty and Staff Attorney for the Georgetown University Law Center’s Housing and Community Development Clinic (Harrison Institute for Public Law). In that capacity he represented tenant associations and cooperatives in the acquisition, renovation, and operation of multifamily properties, especially in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area, and provided legal and technical assistance to a variety of nonprofit corporations that service low and moderate income communities. Prior to joining the Harrison Institute, Aaron practiced in the real estate and litigation departments of Wiggin & Dana in New Haven, CT, and clerked for Judge Lucero of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

• Connecticut
• District of Columbia

• Georgetown University Law Center, LLM, 2002
• Stanford Law School, JD, 1998
• Tufts University, Bachelor of Arts 1994, magna cum laude



•	Represented a local nonprofit developer in the rehabilitation of a 42 unit apartment building in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, D.C., utilizing low income housing tax credits
•	Represents a 199 unit cooperative with project based Section 8, in its efforts to avoid HUD enforcement actions and redevelop the property as party of a larger city initiated neighborhood revitalization program
•	Represents a national for profit developer in various HOPE VI public housing revitalization projects involving mixed income rental and homeownership communities
•	Represented a national nonprofit developer in a mark to market transaction involving tax exempt bond financing and low income housing tax credits
•	Represented a national nonprofit developer in the preservation of a Section 8 property, including the prepayment of a Section 236 loan, assignment and long term renewal of the HAP contract, and syndication of low income housing tax credits



•	“Leaders, Followers and Free Riders: The Community Lawyer’s Dilemma when Representing Non-Democratic Client Organizations,” with Michael Diamond, Fordham Urban Law Journal, January 2004.
•	Legal Guide for Housing Underserved Populations in the District of Columbia, published by the Harrison Institute for Public Law, 2004.
•	Edited the sixth edition of the Tenant Survival Guide, published by the Harrison Institute for Public Policy, July 2003.



•	MELD/Evenstart, Inc. Board of Directors (2004–present).

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