The Tax Provision Worsening the Affordable Housing Crisis

Tax Notes senior reporter Cady Stanton investigated a provision of the low-income housing tax credit and talked to housing advocates and tenants about how a 1990s tax policy has affected affordable housing.

Stanton interviewed the following people for this episode:

• Teresa Myers, a former tenant of Rosewood Estates in Springfield, Missouri
• Jennifer Schwartz, director of tax and housing advocacy at the National Council of State Housing Agencies
• Gina Chiala, executive director and staff attorney at the Heartland Center for Jobs and Freedom

For more, read Stanton's investigation for free in Tax Notes:

• Absent Congress, Protecting LIHTC-Funded Housing Has Fallen to States
• Congress Gave Developers Flexibility. It’s Costing People Their Homes.

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Credits
Host: David D. Stewart
Executive Producers: Jeanne Rauch-Zender, Paige Jones
Producer and Editor: Jordan Parrish

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This episode is sponsored by the University of California Irvine School of Law Graduate Tax Program. For more information, visit law.uci.edu/gradtax.