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Low Income Housing Tax Credit

Moving LIHTC Towards Social Housing — A Toolkit

February 11, 2025 by

Link to the complete Toolkit Executive Summary The future of our housing system must be one that works for everyone. To that end, tenants, organizers and advocates are working towards a system of social housing. Social housing is permanently and deeply affordable, permanently removed from the for-profit market, and owned and controlled by public, non-profit, or community … [Read more...] about Moving LIHTC Towards Social Housing — A Toolkit

How States’ Low Income Housing Tax Credit Allocation Plans Can Help Increase Students’ Access to Integrated, Well-Resourced Schools (October 2024)

October 22, 2024 by

Link to the pdf of this brief How States’ Low Income Housing Tax Credit Allocation Plans Can Help Increase Students’ Access to Integrated, Well-Resourced Schools A Guide for Education Advocates1 70 years after the U.S. Supreme Court declared school segregation unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education, American classrooms remain persistently isolated along racial … [Read more...] about How States’ Low Income Housing Tax Credit Allocation Plans Can Help Increase Students’ Access to Integrated, Well-Resourced Schools (October 2024)

Why it’s tough to stamp out housing voucher discrimination

January 31, 2024 by

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January 31, 2024 By Molly Bolan, Assistant Editor, Route Fifty Link to the original article In many places, it's illegal for landlords to discriminate against tenants using Section 8 vouchers. Enforcing those rules is difficult, but governments are forging ahead. Earlier this month, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced plans to create an enforcement unit to quickly … [Read more...] about Why it’s tough to stamp out housing voucher discrimination

How Are LIHTC Rules Enforced—And How Well?

November 15, 2023 by

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Link to original article by SHELBY R. KING, for Shelterforce, November 15, 2023, THIS ARTICLE IS PART OF THE UNDER THE LENS SERIES LIHTC: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE VERY COMPLICATED  The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program awards billions in tax credits each year to private market investors and developers who promise to build or preserve affordable … [Read more...] about How Are LIHTC Rules Enforced—And How Well?

Building Opportunity III: Affirmatively furthering fair housing in the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program (October 2023)

October 12, 2023 by

October 11, 2023 A PRRAC Report. By Janelle Taylor, (J.D. Georgetown Law School 2023), and a Law & Policy Intern at PRRAC in 2022-2023;  Robert Lindsay, (J.D. University of Minnesota Law School 2023), and also a Law & Policy Intern at PRRAC in 2022-2023; and Philip Tegeler (Executive Director of PRRAC). Synopsis: This summary report is an update to our 2015 … [Read more...] about Building Opportunity III: Affirmatively furthering fair housing in the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program (October 2023)

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