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Tax Credit Advisor, October 2011: Little Big Horn College (LBHC), the higher education institution of the Crow (Apsáalooke) Tribe of Indians located in Crow Agency, Mt., will soon complete construction on its new 35,000-square-foot Health and Wellness Center, which is being funded in part by federal new markets tax credits.
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Tax Credit Advisor, October 2011: The financial and operating performance of existing low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) properties has improved considerably in recent years while the incidence of under-performing projects has decreased, according to a new report from Reznick Group, a national accounting, tax, and business advisory firm.
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By Ginger McGuire, Lancaster Pollard
Budget and legislative proposals in Washington are raising questions about the future of federal financial support for rural affordable rental housing projects and how these much-needed developments will be funded in coming years.
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Tax Credit Advisor, October 2011:
By Robert Lefenfeld, Real Property Research Group, Inc.
Advocates and policymakers have always struggled to address affordable housing needs with limited resources.
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TaxCredit Advisor, October 2011:
By Jacob Wahlenmaier and Joseph Mandeville, RED CAPITAL GROUP, LLC
Developers of low-income housing tax credit properties may want to give the Dallas/Fort Worth (D/FW) metropolitan area a closer look.
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Tax Credit Advisor, October 2011: For seniors with a passion for fire trucks, Lincoln Towers in Wilmington, Del. is the perfect place to live.
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Tax Credit Advisor, October 2011: More than 200 national, state, and local organizations, including the National Housing & Rehabilitation Association, have signed a new letter urging Congress to preserve the low-income housing tax credit program and endorsing two legislative proposals to improve it.
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Tax Credit Advisor, October 2011: Though it’s said you never hear the bullet that kills you, the whistling sounds overhead really worry me, because I’ve heard them before, a quarter-century ago.
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Tax Credit Advisor, October 2011:
By Anthony G. Brown, Lieutenant Governor, State of Maryland
With increasingly scarce resources, looming budget cuts, and growing demand, the task of preserving affordable rental housing continues to be a complex challenge, but critical to meet our country’s needs. For every new affordable apartment created, two are lost due to deterioration, abandonment or conversion to more expensive housing.
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Tax Credit Advisor, September 2011: One conceptual proposal by the Rental Policy Working Group recommends a set of uniform national standards for market studies for affordable rental housing projects, largely based upon those developed by the National Council of Affordable Housing Market Analysts (NCAHMA), a Council of the National Housing & Rehabilitation Association.
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Tax Credit Advisor, September 2011: The federal low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) program, 25 years old now, has created over 2.4 million affordable apartment units nationwide in communities small to large.
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Tax Credit Advisor, September 2011: It doesn’t happen often. But sometimes you develop a housing project that makes an entire community whole again – totally healthy.