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By Will Cooper Jr., President and CEO, WNC & Associates, Inc.
Tax Credit Advisor, February 2011: As the low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) program enters its 25th year, there are many reasons to celebrate. The LIHTC program, the nation’s largest and most successful federal affordable housing program, has had a magical run since 1986. Yet the winds of fiscal and political change are upon it, and both the success and support that the LIHTC program has long enjoyed could easily be eclipsed by this change.
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Tax Credit Advisory, February 2011: The disability movement has a sparkling, visible new national symbol in a two-story development in Berkeley, Calif., funded in part by the federal new markets tax credit. The projects used the “targeted populations” criteria to qualify for this incentive.
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Tax Credit Advisor, February 2011: The National Council of State Housing Agencies (NCSHA) has issued revised recommended practices for low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) underwriting and allocations by state housing credit agencies (HCAs).
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Tax Credit Advisor, February 2011: In Austin, Texas, Foundation Communities is developing a 150-unit low-income housing tax credit project that will have many green features, and is retrofitting its existing apartment properties to make them more energy efficient.
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Tax Credit Advisor, February 2011: The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has seeded a new “enhanced” low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) fund providing added protection to investors against any cut-off of HUD Section 8 rent subsidies to financed projects.
The fund has two classes of investors with different yields and changing benefit ratios.
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Tax Credit Advisor, February 2011: The historic rehabilitation tax credit equity market is a bit improved from last fall in terms of the availability of equity and credit pricing to developers, say sources. The new markets tax credit (NMTC) market, because of the recent reauthorization of the program through 2011, should see increased flow of investor equity in the near future.
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Tax Credit Advisor, February 2011: Tax credit industry participants had mixed reactions to provisions in the major tax bill (H.R. 4853) signed into law by President Obama on December 17 (P.L. 111-312).
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Tax Credit Advisor, February 2011: In a significant ruling hailed by practitioners, the U.S. Tax Court has ruled against the Internal Revenue Service in its challenge of the structure of a transaction involving the $99 million historic rehabilitation of the former convention center in Atlantic City, N.J. The IRS could appeal the decision. (Historic Boardwalk Hall, LLC, New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Service, Docket No. 11273-07, Jan. 3, 2011.)
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Tax Credit Advisor, February 2011: For developer Bob Greer and The Michaels Organization, the past year has been a period of multiple awards and positive recognition.
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Tax Credit Advisor, January 2011: Developers and investors need to be careful as they prepare to unwind their existing federal historic tax credit transactions, particularly if the deal also has other types of federal tax credits, speakers said at a recent Washington, D.C. conference held by the Institute for Professional and Executive Development.
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Tax Credit Advisor, January 2011: In Citrus Heights, Calif., a city near Sacramento, affordable housing developer USA Properties Fund, Inc. has completed the conversion of a low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) property to renewable solar power, in a step expected to help the company shape a future solar strategy for its entire portfolio.
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Tax Credit Advisors, January 2011: Some developers are putting the pedal to the metal when it comes to green building – aiming for “net zero” in designing and constructing new affordable multifamily housing projects.</p