On Dec. 1, HUD released income limits for 2012. Under the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (HERA), income limits are used to determine qualification levels as well as set maximum rental rates for projects funded with low-income housing tax credits and projects financed with tax-exempt...
When determining an applicant's eligibility, tax credit managers often can be thrown by HUD Section 8 regulations for income and asset identification that seem to conflict with certain provisions in the tax credit regulations. Jo Ikelheimer, research & development consultant and...
If you own or manage a tax credit site, there may have been times when you had trouble deciding whether to count an investment or retirement account as income or an asset. That's probably because of the inconsistencies that appear in HUD's Occupancy Handbook 4350.3, REV-1, CHG-2,...
The recently issued Change 2 to HUD Handbook 4350.3 does not address how you, as an owner or manager, calculate annual income by using year-to-date (YTD) income.
