Tell your members of Congress why you support strengthening the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit

A new, bipartisan bill has been introduced in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. The Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2019 would strengthen the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit. This would have a significant impact on the production of affordable housing nationwide, supporting the Cost of Home campaign’s policy focus area of increasing the supply and preservation of affordable homes.

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Subject: Support S.1703/H.R. 3077 to increase the supply of affordable homes

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As your constituent, and a supporter of Habitat for Humanity, I urge you to support and co-sponsor the Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2019 (AHCIA) – S. 1703 and H.R. 3077 – bipartisan legislation that will strengthen the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (Housing Credit). This legislation would have a significant impact on the affordable housing production nationwide, and locally in your state. Today, nearly 19 million U.S. households pay half or more of their income on a place to live. That means that 1 in 6 families are denied the personal and economic stability that safe, decent and affordable housing provides. This is unacceptable, which is why Habitat has launched our first national advocacy campaign – Cost of Home. The campaign’s policy platform identifies that increasing the supply and preservation of affordable homes is an integral part of addressing our nation’s housing affordability challenge. The Housing Credit is one of the most important existing federal tools that effectively creates new homes for low-income families. The Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act includes a 50 percent increase in Housing Credit authority and would establish a minimum 4 percent Housing Credit rate. In total, those two provisions alone would provide approximately 450,500 additional affordable homes over the next ten years. The AHCIA also includes more than two dozen other provisions that would help preserve existing affordable housing, facilitate Housing Credit development for extremely low-income households and in hard-to-serve communities, provide state Housing Credit allocating agencies new tools to strengthen program oversight, and streamline rules to create efficiencies in program administration. New provisions in the AHCIA, this Congress, would help the Housing Credit better serve rural areas, encourage cost reasonableness, and maximize Private Activity Bond affordable housing resources, among other changes. Thank you for your consideration of co-sponsoring the Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act – S. 1703 and H.R. 3077. Together, we can make the #CostOfHome something we all can afford. Sincerely,

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