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HUD Updates Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Database

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The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) database,
created by HUD and available to the public since 1994,
has been updated and now contains information on nearly
22,000 projects and more than 1,141,000 housing units
placed in service between 1987 and 2002. The LIHTC is
the most important resource for creating affordable
housing in the United States today.  The revised national
database that provides a comprehensive project-level look
at LIHTC production.

Created by the Tax Reform Act of 1986, the LIHTC program
gives state and local LIHTC-allocating agencies the
equivalent of nearly $5 billion in annual budget
authority to issue tax credits for the acquisition,
rehabilitation, or new construction of rental housing
targeted to lower-income households. Although some data
about the program have been made available by various
sources, HUD's database is the only complete national
source of information on the size, unit mix, and location
of individual projects. With the continued support of the
national LIHTC database, HUD hopes to enable researchers
to learn more about the effects of the tax credit
program.

The database includes project address, number of units
and low-income units, number of bedrooms, year the credit
was allocated, year the project was placed in service,
whether the project was new construction or rehab, type
of credit provided, and other sources of project
financing. The database has been geocoded, enabling
researchers to look at the geographical distribution and
neighborhood characteristics of tax credit projects. It
may also illustrate how incentives to locate projects in
low-income areas and other underserved markets are
working.

Data are available through the LIHTC Database Access web
site at http://lihtc.huduser.gov/. In addition to
downloading the entire database, users may extract more
limited sets of data by selecting only the variables of
interest to them, and by filtering for variable values or
restricting the geographic extent of their query.

A companion report analyzing the latest data will be
released shortly.

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