Since Congress first created the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program in 1986, it has become the largest federal program ever to serve the rental needs of lower income households across the U.S. In collaboration with NCSHA, this webinar will present highlights of a new report that provides insights on what the program has accomplished--who the residents are, how affordable their LIHTC units are, and where they are located. The report is based on a year-long project that created a database merging property and household-level data on LIHTC for the first time.
Presenters:
Jill Khadduri, Principal Research Associate, Abt Global
Mary Tingerthal, Founding Principal, Tingerthal Group
Keely Stater, Senior Research Associate, Abt Global
Additional Resources
Rental Housing Results from Low-Income Housing Tax Credits
Abt is merging databases with information on rental housing results from low-income housing tax credits to inform decision-making.
Housing & Asset Building
Abt promotes stable, decent, affordable, and inclusive housing in the U.S. by building evidence for effective housing policy, community development, and asset-building strategies. Our evaluation work in the 1970s informed the creation and implementation of the Housing Choice Voucher program, the nation’s largest tenant-based rental assistance program. Today, our focus is homelessness, including management of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Annual Homelessness Assessment Report. We support initiatives to increase both the overall housing stock and the supply of affordable homes for everyone. All pose complex challenges for policymakers at the federal, state, and local levels.
Affordable Housing Supply
Faced with limited housing supply and soaring rents and home prices, more people, particularly with low incomes, struggle to find or keep an affordable, safe place to live. Ripple effects of the affordable housing crisis include increasing health challenges, declining educational outcomes, and surging homelessness. Abt’s decades of rigorous evidence-building work with federal, state, local, and non-profit partners—combined with our training and technical assistance expertise—inform today’s efforts to make housing more affordable. We continue to shape rental assistance programs like Housing Choice Vouchers and public housing, policies to boost production and preservation of affordable housing, and initiatives to help make homeownership feasible. Our partners and teams enrich our cross-sector, data-driven approach with first-hand insights, enabling us to advance housing affordability for all.
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