Casterline Associates is a Certified Public Accounting (CPA) and Consulting Firm specialized in providing a variety of services to the Affordable Housing industry.  Areas of focus include Financial Consulting, Strategic Planning, Accounting Services, Information Technology, Energy Management and Development/Construction.  

Our firm was created in 1995, and members of our firm have been providing services to Housing Agencies and Non-Profits since 1985.  Our staff that includes a broad range of expertise, and we have access to a network of professionals with skills in every facet of the Affordable Housing industry. 

Firm Highlights  

• We have assisted over 200 Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) , Non-Profits, and Resident Management Corporations in the areas of Finance and Information Technology, including large, medium and small Agencies. Work has including accounting, auditing, financial consulting, training and other specialized tasks. 

• We have trained over 11,000 PHA and HUD personnel at our Financial Management seminars. Our training has included workshops sponsored by our firm at locations throughout the United States, as well as training for HUD Field Offices, HUD’s Troubled Agency Recovery Center (TARC), and in-house training for large PHAs. 

• We are one of just 15 HUD contractors nationwide that was engaged by the Department to assist troubled agencies to improve operations, including financial operations. We have consulted regularly with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and they have used us as a resource to assist in turning around troubled Housing Agencies through the Troubled Agency Recovery Center (TARC) and Recovery and Prevention Corps (RPC). 

• We have been hired by HUD on numerous occasions to assist in writing guidebooks and other materials, such as the Financial Management chapter of the Housing Choice Voucher Program Guidebook, HUD’s Field Monitoring Guidebook, the Real Estate Assessment Center’s GAAP Conversion materials, and various other authoritative documents. 

• We have assisted PHA clients in increasing their operating subsidy by a cumulative amount of more than $40,000,000, since our firm was formed in 1995, thus enabling us to frequently pay for ourselves many times over.

• We provide a monthly publication, The Casterline Associates Advisor, to over 400 PHA and HUD subscribers who rely on the Advisor to keep up to date with the latest changes in Public Housing financial management.