Publications and Research Summaries

• Building Opportunity: Civil Rights Best Practices in the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program (An Updated Fifty-State Review of LIHTC “Qualified Allocation Plans” ) (October 2008) (with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law)


• Are States Using the Low Income Tax Credit to Enable Families with Children to Live in Low Poverty and Racially Integrated Neighborhoods? A new report by Jill Khadduri, Larry Buron, and Carissa Climaco, sponsored by PRRAC and the National Fair Housing Alliance


• "Percentage of family LIHTC units in low-poverty neighborhoods: ranking of all large metro areas"


• "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

LIHTC Advocacy in the States

• Inclusive Communities Project v. Texas Dept. of Housing and Community Affairs (N.D. Texas Filed March 2008)


• Dallas Morning News Article on Texas LIHTC Lawsuit, April 25, 2008


• Recent fair housing comments on State QAPs
  
  
  
  • CT 2001 (CT Civil Liberties Union Foundation)
  
  
  • IL 2005 (Lawyers Committee)
  
  
  • LA 2006 (LA QAP Comments)
  
  
  • MA 2004 (Mass. Law Reform)
  
  
  • MD 2005 (Maryland Legal Aid)
  
  
  • MD Maps
  
  
  • NJ 2002 (Fair Share Housing)
  
  
  • TX 2005 (E. Julian)
  
  
  • TX 2005 (Lawyers Committee)
  
  
  • TX 2005 (Robert Voelker)
  
  
  • VA 2005 (HOME)
  
  
  • NC 2005 (Legal Aid of NC)
  
  
  • Background Materials for July 18, 2005 Meeting at the U.N.C. Center for Civil Rights
  
  
  • NC Maps
  
  
  • NC 2005 Follow-up Letter

National Policy Advocacy

• Civil Rights Comments, Housing Tax Credit Coordination Act (June 29. 2009)


• Comment letter to Treasury Department on Capital Magnet Fund (May 5, 2009)


• Comment letter to HUD on LIHTC data collection (May 5, 2009)


• Letter to Secretary Donovan on LIHTC requirements in the stimulus bill (March 10, 2009)


• Petition for Rulemaking to the IRS, March 12, 2008


• "Civil Rights Mandates in the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program" (an advocate's guide)


• March 2004 Letter to IRS on Civil Rights Requirements in LIHTC guidebook

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