Working at Klein Hornig allows me to solve complex legal challenges for clients who share the same mission that I do: building more safe and affordable homes. I strive to set up every project for success knowing that it represents another step towards solving the housing shortage.
Claudia Wack represents nonprofit, for-profit, and public sector developers in navigating the affordable housing lifecycle. She has worked on Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) projects in every corner of the country and has extensive practice experience in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Since joining Klein Hornig in 2021, Claudia has earned a reputation among clients and colleagues alike for a level of clarity, organization, and responsiveness that enables her to drive projects to a successful closing. She regularly works on transactions that incorporate mixed-use components, complex condominium structures, and layered financing tools such as state tax credits, tax-exempt bonds, FHA-insured loans, Section 8 rental subsidies, and other private debt and state and local funding sources.
Claudia also leverages her background in fair housing to advise clients on how to comply with state and federal civil rights laws in designing residential projects for special populations; establishing leasing and occupancy rules; and, for state and local governments, adopting laws and policies that affirmatively further fair housing. Claudia is particularly adept at advising clients on achieving compliance while balancing the practical, day-to-day considerations of property management and local governance.
Prior to joining Klein Hornig, Claudia clerked for the Honorable Bruce M. Selya on the First Circuit Court of Appeals and served in Rhode Island state government as a housing policy advisor. She has authored multiple pieces of housing production legislation that were signed into law.