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Recently Released: Updating the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Database: Projects Placed in Service Through 2001

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The LIHTC database has recently been updated with data on
projects placed in service through 2001.
The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) is the most
important resource for creating affordable housing today.
Created by the Tax Reform Act of 1986, the LIHTC program
gives states 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. HUD's
database is the only complete national source of
information on the size, unit mix, and location of
individual projects.

The database contains information on nearly 20,700
projects and more than 1,041,000 housing units placed in
service between 1987 and 2001. The database includes
project location, 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. In addition, the
database is geocoded, which enables researchers to look
at the geographical distribution and neighborhood
characteristics of tax credit projects.

Updating the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Database:
Projects Placed in Service through 2001 presents the
results of the new data and also describes the addition
of 132 projects and 11,832 units placed in service
between 1995 and 2000 that were not included in the
previous updates.

LIHTC data are available to the public. Users can select
variables of interest, retrieve data on all projects in a
particular state or group of states, restrict the search
to projects with a particular characteristic or set of
characteristics, select only projects in a particular
city or county, or all projects within a user-selected
radius of the center of a city. Also available are the
tract-level data for the geocoded projects placed in
service from 1995 through 2001.

All LIHTC data, including 2001 data, are available as a
free download or through HUD USER's query system at
https://www.huduser.gov/datasets/lihtc.html.

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