A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve the low-income housing credit and provide relief relating to the coronavirus emergency, and for other purposes.
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Latest Action · June 25, 2020
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Emergency Affordable Housing Act of 2020
This bill enhances provisions of the low-income housing tax credit and adjusts the credit to provide assistance during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic.
Specifically, the bill
increases to three years (currently, two years) following an allocation of housing credits, the period for making rehabilitation expenditures for a low-income housing tax credit project; extends to three years the period during which a project may be placed in service and remain eligible for the credit; reduces for a two-year period the financing percentage for an affordable housing project from 50% to 25%; establishes a 4% minimum credit rate for affordable housing projects that received a housing credit allocation after 2019; makes permanent the expansion of the 9% housing tax credit; increases the credit for low-income housing tax credit buildings that designate at least 20% of their occupied units for extremely low-income households; increases the credit during a specified temporary period to compensate for construction or leasing delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic; and allows a credit for low-income housing supportive services.
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