Abstract
Prohibitively high land acquisition and construction costs block affordable housing developers from using the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program in high opportunity areas. Policymakers must study the history of housing policy in the United States and realize that the LIHTC program works because it suitably balances previously problematic private-market competition, federalism concerns, and compliance issues. Federal lawmakers can look to Qualified Allocation Plans drafted by individual states as a way to encourage the construction of affordable housing without upsetting this equilibrium. To encourage such development, the federal government can require states, in determining tax credit allocations through QAPs, to give preference to difficult development areas, high opportunity areas, or areas with less than 10% affordable housing stock.
Recommended Citation
Connor Blancato,
QAP Out: Why the Federal Government Should Require More from How States Allocate Low-Income Housing Tax Credits,
28 J. L. & Pol'y
639
(2020).
Available at:
https://brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu/jlp/vol28/iss2/5
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