Feature
January 9, 2020
The minimum wage in more than 20 states and 26 cities and counties across America increased on Jan. 1, according to the National Employment Law Project (NELP). This affects more than half of the country’s population and marks the greatest jurisdictional raise in U.S. history. Of the states...
Q & A
January 9, 2020
Q We need to repaint some of the low-income units at our tax credit site. To accomplish this, we must temporarily displace residents—that is, have residents move out of their units—for a few days. Will the owner of our site stay entitled to claim credits for these units while their...
Q & A
January 9, 2020
Q My management company will let a qualified applicant with no credit history sign a lease if she can find a guarantor. One applicant told us that if we rent a low-income unit to him, his guarantor will pay the rent for two months. If we accept the applicant, should we count these rent payments as...
Q & A
January 9, 2020
Q Our site is a project-based Section 8 site with LIHTC units. We recently found out that one of our residents who has lived at the site since 2007 got married in 2014 and never reported it. We know her husband doesn’t live in the unit because he’s a registered sex offender and he isn...
In the News
January 9, 2020
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently dismissed a discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Treasury and the Office of Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). This long-running lawsuit was brought by the Inclusive Communities Project (ICP), the same organization that pursued a similar...
