Since President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law, the price investors are willing to pay for LIHTC’s has dropped and may fall further because the new law reduced the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent starting in 2018. This change will sharply reduce the need...
A recent study from the Urban Institute entitled, “The Relationship between Housing and Asthma among School-Age Children,” used data from the 2015 American Housing Survey (AHS) to explore connections between housing and childhood asthma. The study found that that renters with...
A new study entitled, “Unstable Housing and Caregiver and Child Health in Renter Families,” from Boston Medical Center’s Children’s HealthWatch program finds housing instability, including chronically late rent payments, can affect the mental and physical health of family...
On Dec. 22, President Trump signed the $1.5 trillion tax overhaul legislation into law. Prior to the signing, House and Senate GOP leadership filed a conference report on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, reconciling the differences between the House-passed and Senate-passed versions of the bill. The...
The Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University (JCHS) recently released its biennial rental housing study. The report finds that unprecedented growth in the rental housing market is slowing amid persistent affordability challenges for low- and moderate-income renter households. Fewer...
Facts: The site owner of a single-building project requested an extension of time to make an election under Section 42(g)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code. Here, the owner inadvertently failed to make a timely, correct election for the building under Section 42(g)(1), consistent...
Since the publication of the Insider’s Special Issue detailing the House of Representatives’ tax reform bill, the House passed its version of tax reform legislation, the Tax Cuts and...
The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed legislation to renew and reform the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The NFIP’s authorization is set to expire on Dec. 9. During debate on the House floor, several Republicans expressed concerned that the bill would impose steep...
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) recently announced that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), will be allowed limited re-entry into the LIHTC market as equity investors, effective immediately.
The GSEs have been absent from the LIHTC market...
Evidence is building that housing affordability, the neighborhood’s environment, and conditions within the home are all important determinants of health, according to an op-ed published in the Economist Group’s Roll Call publication by Anand Parekh, M.D., chief medical adviser at the...
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1), which proposes the elimination of Private Activity Bonds, would cost the State of New York $4.5 billion in affordable housing investment annually, and 17,000 fewer affordable units would be built each year, according to an impact analysis recently released by...
In a letter sent to the California Congressional delegation, California State Treasurer John Chiang urged the delegation to preserve funding for LIHTC and the Private Activity Bond programs. He pointed out the vital role these programs play in building and preserving affordable housing...
