Scott is a Director in the Affordable Housing section of Coats Rose. He joined the firm’s Austin office in October 2006, and has more than 14 years of experience representing developers of affordable housing.
Scott served as General Counsel of a real estate development firm and closed partnerships financed with Section 42 Housing Tax Credits and loans financed by conventional and governmental lenders. He assisted the Chicago Housing Authority with redeveloping the Cabrini-Green public housing high-rise towers into mixed-finance properties such as North Town Village, combining public housing, tax credit and market-rate homes in a 272-apartment development.
Scott has assisted with successful applications for Louisiana GO Zone housing tax credits. He has served as affordable housing legal advisor to the master developer for Austin’s Mueller Airport redevelopment, drafting shared appreciation loan documents for single family homes to remain affordable. Scott also serves as Counsel to a regional sydicator of low income housing tax credits. He is a board member of the Austin Community Development and Design Center.
Scott has served as Counsel to local government agencies, for-profit and nonprofit developers in closing financing such as Section 42 housing tax credits, HOME loans and private activity bonds, to develop affordable housing.
The Johns Hopkins University (B.A., Mathematics, 1990)
University of Texas (J.D., 1994)
1994, Texas
State Bar of Texas