| Sarah Molseed’s practice focuses on affordable housing development and operations as well as regulatory interpretation and administrative law. Sarah represents housing authorities across the country on a variety of matters including self-development transactions where an affiliate of the housing authority acts as developer, responses to OIG audits and HUD debarment proceedings, and project-based voucher issues. Selected Recent Transactions • Worked on an 80 unit development in Ohio involving Tax Exempt Bonds, HOPE VI funds, low-income housing tax credits and HOME funds.
• Assisted housing authorities in Florida to create and utilize a project-based voucher program.
• Developed and presented a training on management documents and obligations for a mixed-finance development to housing authority staff.
• Assisted in the drafting of law summaries for the Public Housing Administrative Reform Initiative and in preparing the firm’s comments to a number of regulatory developments including the Affiliate Notice and the Mixed-Finance Streamlining Rule.
• Provided technical assistance to a DC area cooperative as a legal reviewer in the 2007 Co-Op Clinic, sponsored by NCB Capital Impact
Major Prior Work Experience
Sarah previously interned for former Senator Tom Daschle, the Harrison Institute for Public Law Housing and Community Development Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center, the law firm of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLC, and Manna, Inc., a Washington, D.C. community development organization that focuses on affordable housing. Sarah also served as a law clerk at Reno & Cavanaugh. At the Harrison Institute, Sarah helped tenant associations engaged in the purchase and renovation of their buildings under the District of Columbia’s Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act.
• Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLC, Washington, DC, Summer Associate, Summer 2005
• Harrison Institute for Public Law, Housing and Community Development Clinic, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, Clinical Intern, 2004-2005
• Office of Senator Tom Daschle, United States Senate, Washington DC, Legal Intern, Summer 2004
Publications
• Presented two sessions for HTVN on fair housing and regulatory developments, Fall 2007.
• “An Ownership Society for All: Community Development Financial Institutions as the Bridge Between Wealth Inequality and Asset-Building Policies,” Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy, Volume 13.3, Fall 2006.
Awards and Community Activities
• Georgetown University Law Center Order of the Coif, Magna Cum Laude
• Georgetown University Law Center Dean’s Scholar
• Instructor, Street Law Program at local community groups and high schools, Georgetown University Law Center
Speaking Engagements/Publications
• Presented two sessions for HTVN on fair housing and regulatory developments, Fall 2007.
• Legal Reviewer, 2007 DC Co-op Clinic sponsored by NCB Capital Impact
• Author, An Ownership Society for All: Community Development Financial Institutions as the Bridge Between Wealth Inequality and Asset-Building Policies, Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy, Volume 13.3, Fall 2006.
Awards, Community and Professional Activities
• Certified Housing Development Finance Professional
• Member, American Bar Association Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law
• Georgetown University Law Center Order of the Coif, Magna Cum Laude
• Georgetown University Law Center Dean’s Scholar (Merit scholarship)
• Instructor, Street Law Program at local community groups and high schools, Georgetown University Law Center
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