Ballard Spahr LLP

Real Estate

Partner and Chair of the Real Estate Department

Amy M. McClain represents housing authorities and affordable housing developers in the context of mixed-finance transactions. She is the Chair of the firm's Real Estate Department.

Amy is based in Baltimore and is a lawyer who closes affordable housing transactions involving a variety of funding sources, including Low Income Housing Tax Credits, the Rental Assistance Demonstration program, public housing and Section 8 funding sources, HUD-insured loans, tax-exempt bonds, state housing finance agency loan funds, and conventional financing.

These transactions have provided her with the opportunity to negotiate issues among the financing parties, housing authorities, and developers while also coordinating various U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development review and approval processes. Amy also addresses traditional real estate issues intertwined with affordable housing development.

Maryland

American Bar Association, Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, Past Chair

Housing and Development Law Institute

Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service

Msgr. O'Dwyer Youth Retreat House, 2012-2017

Harbor Walk Townhouse Association, 2015-2017

Southeast Community Development Corporation, 2009-2016

University of Maryland School of Law (J.D. 2002, with honors) Student Lawyer, Community Transactions Clinic; Member, Order of the Coif; Associate Editor, Maryland Law Review

American University (B.A. 1993, magna cum laude)