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Civil Rights Mandates in the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program
The LIHTC program, administered by the IRS and state housing finance agencies, is currently the largest low income housing production program in the country. Unfortunately, it is being operated with little or no civil rights oversight. Patterns of siting of projects in many states are reproducing and perpetuating segregation of low income families in high poverty neighborhoods. In other states, developments located in low poverty areas may not be reaching the families who need housing most.
Current Litigation and Advocacy
PRRAC Research Reports
Advocacy Guides
Other Resources- "Survey Data Shows Small Share of LIHTC Units Receiving 2005 Allocations Were Intended to Serve Poor Households” By Joseph Guggenheim
- Seema Shah, "Having Low Income Housing Tax Credit Qualified Allocation Plans Take into Account the Quality of Schools at Proposed Family Housing Sites: A Partial Answer to the Residential Segregation Dilemma?" 39 Indiana Law Review 691 (2006) (Copyright 2006, the Trustees of Indiana University. Reprinted with permission from the Indiana Law Review)
- Diane Standaert, "The Absence of Minority Concentration Assessments in the Low Income Housing Tax Credit: An Empirical Data Case Study of Durham North Carolina," Practicing Planner (Summer 2006) (Copyright 2006, Americal Planning Association. Reprinted with permission.)
- "Underwriting for Fair Housing" by Henry Korman, Summer, 2005
- A Developer's Approach to Organized Opposition: Utilizing the Fair Housing Act to Counteract NIMBY, by Robert H. Voelker
- Myron Orfield, "Racial Integration and Community Revitalization: Applying The Fair Housing Act to the Low Income Housing Tax Credit," Vanderbilt Law Review, November 2005 (8 Vand. L. Rev. 1747).
- 2009 UCLA Civil Rights Project report on LIHTC and school segregation in California
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