Thursday, June 1, 2017

How Jared Kushner built a luxury skyscraper using loans meant for job-starved areas

(Source: Washington Post) Jared Kushner and his real estate partners wanted to take advantage of a federal program in 2015 that would save them millions of dollars as they built an opulent, 50-story residential tower in this city’s booming waterfront district, just across the Hudson River from Lower Manhattan. There was just one problem: The program was designed to benefit projects in poor, job-starved areas. Read more at https://www.washingtonpost.com/