Despite saving tools like the low-income housing tax credit, affordable housing will still take a hit.
With the rental housing crisis becoming acute in many cities nationwide, affordable housing advocates are bemoaning the increasingly difficult task of developing new units. The low-income housing tax credit, created in the 1986 federal tax overhaul, has resulted in 30% of all affordable housing created since. Despite being preserved in the preserved in the latest tax reform, affordable housing is increasingly difficult to provide.
Solutions to address the lack of affordable housing ranges from a proposal to increase the number of tax credits available by 50% to calls for rent control for "naturally-occurring" affordable housing. Compounding the problem is a vast number of units made affordable using low-income housing tax credits will see their programs expire and those units will return to market rate rents.
All of these specifics and more are examined in an article, linked below, by Conor Dougherty.
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