What Happens to Low Income Housing Tax Credit Properties ...
WHAT HAPPENS
TO LOW¨CINCOME
HOUSING TAX CREDIT
PROPERTIES AT YEAR
15 AND BEYOND?
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WHAT HAPPENS
TO LOW¨CINCOME
HOUSING TAX CREDIT
PROPERTIES AT YEAR
15 AND BEYOND?
Prepared for
U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development
Washington, D.C.
Submitted by
Abt Associates Inc.
Bethesda, MD
Jill Khadduri
Carissa Climaco
Kimberly Burnett
In Partnership with
VIVA Consulting
Laurie Gould
Louise Elving
August 2012
WHAT HAPPENS TO LOW¨CINCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT PROPERTIES AT YEAR 15 AND BEYOND?
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors of this report acknowledge the contributions and assistance that a variety of individuals and organizations provided to this study.
We appreciate the guidance and support of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Government Technical Representative, Regina Gray. We also acknowledge Ben Metcalf of HUD, who assisted
in our efforts to find respondents for the owner survey.
We thank the syndicators, brokers, state tax credit allocating staff, and Low-Income Housing Tax Credit
industry experts who agreed to be interviewed and provided data for this study. A list of these individuals and
organizations appears at the end of this report. We thank the tax credit property owners who agreed to participate in the owner survey. Their names are not listed because we told them that information about them and
their properties would not be identifiable in the report. We also thank the National Housing Trust for granting
us access to their Qualified Allocation Plan database for our analysis.
At Abt Associates Inc., Meryl Finkel provided advice to the study team and reviewed all study plans and documents. Stephanie Althoff and Ruby Jennings assisted with data collection. Nancy McGarry provided data
programming. We thank them for their work on this study.
DISCLAIMER
The contents of this report are the views of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development or the U.S. Government.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
WHAT HAPPENS TO LOW¨CINCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT PROPERTIES AT YEAR 15 AND BEYOND?
ABSTRACT
The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program has been a significant source of new multifamily
housing for a quarter century, producing more than 2 million units of affordable rental housing since 1987. In
recent years, LIHTCs have provided funding for approximately one-third of all new multifamily housing units
built in the United States. In the past few years, however, thousands of properties financed through LIHTC
have become eligible to leave the program, ending rent and income-use restrictions. In the worst-case scenario,
more than 1 million LIHTC units could leave the stock of affordable housing by 2020, a potentially serious
setback to the goal of expanding housing choices for low-income households.
In addition to exploring the issue of whether owners of older LIHTC properties continue to provide affordable
housing for low-income renters, this study examines the factors that affect those owners¡¯ decisions to leave the
LIHTC program and the implications of these departures for the rental housing market. Based on interviews
with owners, with tax credit syndicators and brokers, and with direct investors, the study describes the issues
and decisions that LIHTC property owners confront as their tax-credit projects reach the 15-year mark. The information from interviews was analyzed in conjunction with tabulations from the U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development National LIHTC Database and used to describe what happens to LIHTC properties
as they reach the end of their tax-credit compliance period.
The results demonstrate that most LIHTC properties remain affordable despite having reached and passed the
15-year period of compliance with Internal Revenue Service use restrictions. A limited number of exceptions
are closely related to the characteristics of the local housing market, as well as to events that occur at Year 15
and beyond. Some LIHTC properties will be recapitalized with new tax credits. Others will be repositioned as
market-rate units, especially if they are located in low-poverty areas. Most property owners will confront the
issue of how to meet substantial capital needs while preserving the housing as affordable. Future inquiry
and research should address these issues as compliance periods continue to expire and tax credit properties
continue to age.
ABSTRACT
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