Emily Blumberg represents clients in connection with a wide range of affordable housing, civil rights, regulatory and community development matters. She advises nonprofit, for-profit and public sector entities in affordable housing transactions involving an array of financing tools, including mixed-finance public housing development, Low-Income Housing Tax Credits, tax-exempt bonds, FHA-insured loans and HUD assistance programs. Emily has significant experience helping clients comply with civil rights and fair housing laws, admissions and occupancy standards, and other regulatory requirements. In addition, Emily counsels clients on tenant purchase and cooperative conversion, as well as nonprofit governance and tax exemption.

Prior to joining Klein Hornig, Emily was a Polikoff-Gautreaux Fellow at BPI (Business and Professional People for the Public Interest) in Chicago, where she used legal, policy, and legislative advocacy to revitalize public housing and preserve affordable housing. Emily also served as a law clerk for Justice Denise R. Johnson of the Vermont Supreme Court.

Emily earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2010, where she was an executive editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, a research and teaching assistant for Professor Lani Guinier, and a mediator with the Harvard Mediation Program. Her internships during law school included housing advocacy with the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute (Boston), Advancement Project (DC), and Centro Legal de la Raza (Oakland). Prior to law school, Emily worked with education and community development nonprofits in the Boston area and in Mexico.

BAR ADMISSIONS

• New York
• District of Columbia
• Illinois