LIHTC

An aging 200-unit property, owned by an affiliate of The Community Builders, will be demolished and replaced by modular, prefabricated homes. MassHousing provided $53 million in financing for the transaction, which includes Low-Income Housing Tax Credits and a renewed 20-year Section 8 HAP contract.

HUD designated the Difficult to Develop Areas (DDA) and Qualified Census Tracts (QCT) that will be effective July 1, 2016. This is the first year Small Area Fair Market Rents (SAFMRs) were used to designate metropolitan DDAs instead of metropolitan-area Fair Market Rents (FMRs).

The LIHTC and bond caps are the greater of $2.35 and $100, respectively, being multiplied by the state’s population, or a predetermined amount. The notice also indicates that rehabilitation expenditures will be treated as a separate new building.

The full list is available on IHDA’s website.

Affordable housing CA State Governor Brown says no to affordable housing bills. TCAC proposes changes to the LITHC program. CohnRezick examines the potential impacts for California.

Rockport Mortgage Corporation provided $17 million for the acquisition and substantial rehabilitation of a low- and moderate-income housing community in Knoxville, Tennessee. Through the HUD 221(d)(4) program, the complex debt structure includes the 4% Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTCs), short-term tax-exempt bonds, and multiple tranche financing.

Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation announced closing of a $3.6 million low-income housing tax credit investment for new construction of affordable rental housing in Cambridge, Mass.

The Community Builders is using $15.6 million in MassHousing financing to renovate a property in Lincoln, MA, that includes 72 apartments that are affordable to lower-income families through the LIHTC program.

The Internal Revenue Service updated the Audit Technique Guide (ATG) for the low-income housing tax credit program. IRS examiners use this guide to audit LIHTC property owners.

Lancaster Pollard worked with the owners of a Sec. 202 affordable seniors housing property in Oakland, CA, that needed significant rehabilitation. Lancaster Pollard ultimately advised on the sale of Northgate Terrace for $27.5 million to WNC, which will perform a complete renovation of the existing property at a total cost of $47 million, including the acquisition and renovation.

A report from the Government Accountability Office suggests that a joint administration between the IRS and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) would benefit the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program.

A report from the Senate Finance Committee Community Development & Infrastructure Bipartisan Tax Working Group estimated expenditures for the historic tax credit, low-income housing tax credit, and new markets tax credit for fiscal years 2014-2018. The report is meant to inform the committee’s discussions on tax reform. The report did not make any recommendations regarding the tax credit programs.