Minor changes may indicate more significant updates to come.
The IRS recently issued updated guidance for completing Form 8823, the form used by state and local LIHTC agencies to notify the IRS in the event of noncompliance or building disposition. The Guide...
As a site owner or manager, it’s a good idea to check the interior common areas of your tax credit site regularly for safety hazards. If you find problems, you must immediately correct them, or risk legal liability for any potential injuries to residents, their guests, or visitors to the...
HUD recently issued Notice H2023-10 that provides guidance to multifamily housing owners regarding the implementation of the many program changes brought about by the Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act of 2016 (HOTMA). The recent notice makes implementation changes for sections 102...
The case shows how mishandling situations involving assistance animals could cost you.
HUD recently charged an owner with violating the Fair Housing Act by refusing a resident’s request for a disability-related reasonable accommodation to keep an assistance animal...
After seven years of working towards consolidating, updating, and improving the Housing Quality Standards (HQS) and the Uniform Physical Condition Standards (UPCS) to implement a single inspection protocol for HUD-assisted units, HUD recently published the final rule for the Physical Inspection...
The spring season’s warm weather and rainy days may motivate you to conduct a thorough spring cleaning of your office files. But before you clean out your file cabinets or declutter your computer files, it’s important to review the LIHTC program’s recordkeeping and retention...
HUD’s Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity recently published a fact sheet to educate housing providers and persons with disabilities who seek reasonable accommodations related to assistance animals. The fact sheet can be found at...
When complying with the tax credit law, you must follow different rules depending on which of the five types of tax credit units you’re dealing with. But tax credit managers often get confused about which rules apply to which type of unit, or even about how each unit type differs. If this...
In an announcement made in early October, the Biden administration announced key progress on implementing its Housing Supply Action Plan. The plan aims to create and preserve hundreds of thousands of affordable housing units in the next three years and help close the country’s critical...
