Advocacy Toolkit

Contact Congress

Senate Finance Committee Members

U.S. Capitol Switchboard (202)224-3121

Dec 2009 Harvard Joint Center (JCHS) Report

Disruption of the LIHTC Program (PDF, 394 KB) (UPDATED 01.06.10)

Kerry/Cantwell Dear Colleague Letter in Support of ACTION Proposals

Kerry-Cantwell Senate LIHTC letter (PDF, 27 KB) (UPDATED 12.22)

Rebuttal Arguments to Common Misconceptions

HUD Working Paper on Rental Markets Jan 2010 (PDF, 1261 KB) (UPDATED 01.08.10)

Affordable vs Conventional Housing Market Vacancies  (PDF, 122 KB)

Carryback FAQs (PDF, 252 KB) 

Sample Letters

Sample Letter to Congress  (Word 2003, 36 KB) (UPDATED 12.2)

Sample Letter to the Editor (Word 2003, 28 KB) (UPDATED 12.2)

Talking Points

One-page Jobs Impact (PDF, 211 KB) 

Talking Points for ACTION(PDF, 162KB) 

Carryback Justification Talking Points (PDF, 59 KB)

Proposals

Summary of Campaign Legislative Proposals (PDF, 89KB) 

Detailed 4% Exchange Proposal (PDF, 123KB)

Detailed Carryback_Proposal (PDF, 156KB)

Detailed Pass Through Entity Proposals (PDF, 60KB)

Fact Sheets

How LIHTC Works | Downloadable description (PDF, 32K)

Ernst and Young Tax Credit Investment Survey

Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. and Local Initiatives Support Corporation surveyed current, former and potential institutional investors, as well as syndicators and brokers active in the housing credit industry. This report was jointly undertaken by Ernst & Young’s Tax Credit Investment Advisory Services group and its Quantitative Economics and Statistics group. Download the Survey (PDF, 2MB)

About the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC)

As the nation’s largest and most successful affordable rental housing production program, the Housing Credit program has financed more than two million apartment homes since 1987 and about 120,000 annually in recent years. According to the National Council of State Housing Agencies, approximately 90 percent of all affordable rental housing is financed annually through the Housing Credit. According to the National Association of Home Builders, until recently the program supported about 140,000 jobs annually, and benefited local economies from the addition of $1.5 billion in taxes and other revenues. Housing Credit properties are also managed very well, with an extremely low annual foreclosure rate below 0.1%, according to Ernst & Young.