In an interview with Affordable Housing Finance, Amy M. McClain (one of our bloggers!) was among industry leaders interviewed about the impact of HUD’s Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program. While the article profiled the Cambridge (MA) Housing Authority and its closing of the first tranche of a portfolio-wide conversion, the article also assessed the prospects for RAD. Amy offers insights about the potential to leverage significant and varied funding to preserve long-term affordable housing and use RAD as learning tool for enhancing preservation techniques. Diane Yentel, vice president of public policy and government affairs at Enterprise Community Partners, offers her views on the future of RAD and the benefits to be derived from the data coming out of future RAD conversions, referencing the momentum to be generated as a result of Congress’s raising the cap to 185,000 units. The full article can be found here.