New Mexico

The New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority (MFA) has announced the release of its draft for the 2013 Qualified Allocation Plan and has opened it for public comment until September 21, 2012. The proposed draft includes several scoring modifications, including two changes detailed in supplemental documents.

HUD, the Department of Agriculture Rural Development (USDA-RD) and the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) recently the “Border Community Capital Initiative” (Border Initiative), a collaboration designed to increase access to capital in the U.S./Mexico border region which includes some of the poorest communities in the country.

The New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority (MFA) has issued an RFP to solicit one or more individuals or firms for calendar years 2012 and 2013 to produce a series of affordable multifamily rental real estate market studies for proposed tax credit projects.

The South Carolina State Housing Finance and Development Authority (SC State Housing) released its draft 2012 Qualified Allocation Plan (QAP) and proposed 2012 Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Manual.

The New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority released the final Qualified Allocation Plan (QAP) for 2012. The agency will host a 2012 QAP and LIHTC application training on November 17, 2011 from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm. Registration is required and space is limited to 70 people. The 2012 tax credit application round deadline has been set for 5:00 pm on January 31, 2012

HUD’s Economic and Market Analysis Division recently released its Comprehensive Housing Market Analysis report for the Las Cruces, New Mexico market area.

The New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority (MFA), has released its 2012 draft Qualified Allocation Plan (QAP) for public comment.

The New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority (MFA) has released its 2011 Draft Low Income Housing Tax Credit Qualified Allocation Plan.

The New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority will hold a training seminar for potential applicants in the 2011 low-income housing tax credit funding round on November 3 in Albuquerque.

The New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority has released a Request for Proposals (RFP) to identify and select qualified individuals to produce affordable multifamily rental real estate market analyses for proposed tax credit projects. The market studies will be used as one means of assessing proposed projects for allocation of low-income housing tax credits (LIHTC).

The National Council of Affordable Housing Market Analysts recently submitted comments on the proposed 2010 qualified allocation plans (QAP) of several states for administering their upcoming rounds of low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) program funding, including the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority, the New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority, the Washing State Housing Finance Commission and the Louisiana Housing Finance Agency.

The New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority has released a draft of its 2010 qualified allocation plan for the low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) program and will accept comments regarding the draft QAP until September 28.