The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) is the federal government’s primary program for encouraging the investment of private equity in the development of affordable rental housing for low-income households.
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The multifamily industry lost in ‘86: That can’t happen again
Not since the days of Ronald Reagan, Bill Bradley and Jack Kemp has a wholesale overhaul of America’s tax code been a serious prospect....
Time for tax reform
Not since the days of Ronald Reagan, Bill Bradley and Jack Kemp has a wholesale overhaul of America’s tax code been as seriously considered...
Doing the right thing
Former U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro, U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert A. McDonald and District of Columbia Mayor...
Financing first
Housing affordability is an issue for a growing number of the nation’s 111.1 million renters, which include people living in housing from apartments to...
What happens when affordable housing doesn’t pencil
But the amount of affordable housing that developers can build is beginning to shrink as the cost of development grows. “The number of units of...
When will affordable housing advocates push for more supply and fewer rules?
The lack of market rate supply contributes to high prices that puts market rate housing out of reach, and as long as that problem...
The art of the simplified portfolio
Would you rather have more of something worth less or less of something worth more? Execs at Denver, Colo.-based apartment REIT Aimco pondered that...
The shocking reality of rental housing
But that's not the most startling part of the survey. It turns out that renters in smaller cities like Duluth and even housing boomtowns...
