Authors:

  • Mihir Desai

Excerpt

Tax Incentives for Affordable Housing: The Low Income Housing Tax Credit. Mihir Desai, Monica Singhal, January 2010, Paper. “The Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) represents a novel tax expenditure program that employs ‘investable’ tax credits to spur production of low-income rental housing. While it has grown into the largest source of new affordable housing in the U.S. and its structure is now being replicated in other programs, the LIHTC has also drawn skepticism and calls for its repeal. We provide estimates of tax expenditures under this program and discuss pricing, efficiency, and distributional effects of the program ...” Link