Legislation recently introduced in the South Carolina Legislature would create a state-level LIHTC for sites in Opportunity Zones (OZs). All three co-sponsors are members of the Democratic Party, which is in the minority in the State House. The bill would automatically qualify LIHTC developments...
The IRS recently published Revenue Procedure 2019-41, which announced the amounts of unused LIHTC carryovers allocated to qualified states for calendar year 2019. Unused LIHTCs are oftentimes generated from small amounts of LIHTCs returned by affordable housing developments or from otherwise...
The National Council of State Housing Agencies (NCSHA) recently sent comments to the IRS on how it can improve LIHTC disaster relief guidance provided in Revenue Procedures 2014-49 and 2014-50. NCSHA submitted a letter in response to the IRS’ request for comments in Notice 2019-52....
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) recently released a report finding that in 2018 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac met all their affordable housing goals and their obligations under the Duty-to-Serve Rule. The Duty-to-Serve program requires Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to facilitate a secondary...
Beto O’Rourke, a Democratic candidate for president and former U.S. Congressman from Texas, recently released a housing plan that aims to bring down rent by building six million housing units and rehabilitating existing public housing. According to his plan, low-income housing funded by...
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) this week released the 2019–2020 priority guidance plan, which established guidance priorities for the Department of the Treasury and IRS for the period from July 1, 2019, through June 30, 2020. The priority guidance plan contains 203...
An affordable housing community in Tennessee catering to seniors and disabled residents became the first property financed by HUD’s Atlanta office under the new Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Pilot Program. The site, designed for elderly and disabled renters, is in Marshall County,...
Maintaining the minimum set-aside and applicable fraction are a tax credit site manager’s two most important occupancy goals during the compliance period. But you must also be sure to find out whether the site owner made any extra promises to your state housing agency in return for its tax...
The Washington State Housing Finance Commission (WSHFC) recently released a report on transfer disputes, titled “Nonprofit Transfer Disputes in the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program: An Emerging Threat to Affordable Housing.” The report discusses the recent increase in the number...
In response to the devastation caused by the 2018 California wildfire season, the IRS recently issued a notice to the state committee that administers federal and state low-income housing tax credits to extend the date of its compliance review of credits in the three affected counties to either...
The United States Census Bureau recently issued a set of three reports—Income and Poverty in the United States: 2018, Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2018, and The Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2018. The reports found that median household income held steady at $63,179...
Johns Hopkins University researchers recently issued a policy research brief exploring the effects of affordable housing on the cognitive development, physical health, and emotional well-being of children living in poverty. Though how much a family spent on housing had no effect on a child...
