An accomplished real estate attorney, John Kelly has extensive experience representing both for-profit and nonprofit developers, owners, and operators in complex real estate transactions, including acquisitions and sales, ground leases, development agreements, and financings. Mr. Kelly is widely known as an expert in federal, state, and local housing programs, including the FHA multifamily mortgage insurance programs, Section 42 low income housing tax credits, Section 8 and Section 202 restructurings, New York State and City Mitchell-Lama programs, and New York State Housing Finance Agency and New York City Housing Development Corporation programs.
Mr. Kelly, a partner specializing in affordable housing real estate & community development at the law firm of Nixon Peabody LLP served as president of the National Housing and Rehabilitation Association from 2003–2005 and currently holds the position of Vice Chair of the National Housing Conference. Mr. Kelly is a director of the New York City Housing Partnership Development Corporation and a member of both the REBNY Housing Committee and the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development’s Neighborhood Investment Advisory Panel.
