Kristin M. Neun
Ms. Neun has been in the multifamily affordable housing arena since 1985, initially in a role as policy advocate and since 1994, as a housing/real estate attorney. Since 2001, Ms. Neun has served as a principal of the firm.
Ms. Neun’s practice focuses on a broad range of multifamily and residential care financings, with a particular emphasis on federally assisted projects. She represents a wide array of industry participants, including for-profit and not-for-profit borrowers and developers, housing managers, operating lessees, FHA mortgage lenders, public housing authorities, housing finance agencies and other state and local public agencies. Ms. Neun works on deal structures that include various forms of HUD mortgage insurance and subsidy, as well as those with conventional financing, various forms of credit enhancement, low income housing tax credits, tax exempt bond financing, and other forms of state and local subsidy. In addition, she regularly provides advice on numerous HUD regulatory issues affecting multifamily housing and residential care providers.
Prior to joining Hessel and Aluise, P.C. in 1996, Ms. Neun practiced law in the Washington office of Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C. where she focused on assisted housing matters, with a particular emphasis on 11(b) bond refundings and other housing and hospital bond finance transactions. Before obtaining her law degree, Ms. Neun worked for over six years as the Research Director/PHA Liaison at the National Leased Housing Association, during which time she represented the interests of both public and private participants in Section 8 and other federal assisted housing programs. From 1985 to1987 Ms. Neun worked on issues relating to 515 rural rental housing for the Council for Rural Housing and Development, now known as the Council for Affordable and Rural Housing.
Ms. Neun serves on the Board of National Leased Housing Association and is a member of the Forum on Affordable Housing of the American Bar Association. She is regularly asked to speak on topics related to multifamily affordable housing regulatory and financing issues.
Ms. Neun received a B.A. in English from Dickinson College in 1985 and obtained her Juris Doctorate from The American University Washington College of Law in 1993 where she graduated with honors. Ms. Neun is admitted to the Bars of the District of Columbia and Maryland.
