| 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 - Closed the first mixed-finance transaction in Hawaii, involving the substantial rehabilitation of over 500 units and utilizing $135 million in financing from the proceeds of tax-exempt bonds, PHA capital funds, and low-income housing tax credits.
- Assisted a housing authority to negotiate and settle an extensive Office of Inspector General Audit on the housing authority’s Housing Choice Voucher Program.
- Closed a 48-unit development in Ohio involving HOPE VI funds, Tax Credit Exchange Program Funds, Tax Credit Assistance Program Funds and low-income housing tax credits.
- Closed 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 New York, Connecticut, Indiana, Ohio, and Florida to create and utilize a project-based voucher program.
- Negotiated and drafted master development agreements between a housing authority and two private developers for redevelopment of four public housing projects. Assisted this same client in educating the Board of Commissioners about mixed-finance transactions.
- Closed on a final phase of a 2002 HOPE VI redevelopment in Ohio utilizing HOPE VI funds, low-income housing tax credits and project-based vouchers. Also worked with the housing authority and HUD to meet the HOPE VI expenditure deadline and otherwise close out the grant.
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
Speaking Engagements/Publications - Presenter, “Project-Based Voucher Programs.” Ohio Housing Authorities Conference Fall Conference, October 2011 and Spring Conference in May 2010.
- Presenter, “How to Audit Proof Your PBV Program.” PSWRC NAHRO 2011 Annual Spring Conference, May 2011.
- Panelist, “The Development Landscape for PHAs.” CLPHA conference, March 2011.
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Instructor, “Beyond the Basics: Mixed Finance Development for Public Housing Authorities.” Seminar, NAHRO, July 2008, July 2009, October 2009, March 2010, October 2010, March 2011. -
Speaker, Project-Based Voucher Audits, NAHRO 2010 National Conference, October 2010. - Presenter, Section 8 and Public Housing Hot Topics, 19th Annual Conference on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, May 2010 (rebroadcast scheduled for September 2010).
- Moderator and Presenter, Effective Handling of HUD and OIG Audits, HDLI 2010 Spring Legal Conference, May 2010.
- Co-Trainer, Tax Credits and PHA Development, Pennsylvania Association of Housing and Redevelopment Associations State Conference, February 2010.
- Moderated Preparing for OIG Audits: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly at 2009 Summer NAHRO Conference.
- Author, Keeping Watch: Protecting Public Housing Authorities’ Access to Counsel, ABA Journal of Affordable Housing, Volume 17, Number 4, Summer 2008.
- Presented Avoiding Sticky Situations on PHA self-development to 2008 Summer NAHRO Conference.
- 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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