Save Affordable Housing Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Save Affordable Housing Act targets the qualified contract option in Internal Revenue Code section 42, which can let owners of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit properties seek to end extended-use affordability commitments if a qualified buyer is not found. The bill preserves the option for buildings that received a housing credit allocation before January 1, 2025, and for certain tax-exempt bond financed buildings that received an issuer or housing-credit-agency determination before that date. For other buildings, it removes the qualified contract path by revising the extended-use agreement rules. The bill also changes the purchase-price language so the non-low-income and low-income portions of a building are valued at fair market value, with the housing credit agency taking rent restrictions into account for the low-income portion. Treasury must prescribe necessary or appropriate regulations. The practical effect is to keep later LIHTC properties under affordability restrictions longer rather than allowing a qualified-contract process to unwind them.
Who Benefits and How
Low-income tenants in LIHTC properties benefit from stronger preservation of extended-use affordability restrictions. State housing credit agencies benefit from clearer authority to maintain affordability commitments for post-2024 buildings. Affordable housing preservation nonprofits benefit from reduced qualified-contract exits that can convert subsidized units to market rates. Local governments facing affordable housing shortages benefit if LIHTC units remain rent-restricted longer.
Who Bears the Burden and How
LIHTC property owners with post-2024 allocations lose the qualified contract exit option. Housing credit agencies must value restricted low-income portions while accounting for rent limitations. Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service must issue implementing regulations. Investors in later LIHTC deals may face longer affordability restrictions and less exit flexibility.
Key Provisions
- Repeals the qualified contract option for LIHTC buildings receiving allocations after January 1, 2025.
- Protects the option for pre-2025 allocation buildings and certain pre-2025 bond-financed determinations.
- Modifies fair-market-value purchase language for low-income and non-low-income portions of covered buildings.
- Requires housing credit agencies to account for rent restrictions when valuing the low-income portion.
- Directs Treasury to prescribe regulations needed to carry out the revised section 42 rules.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Repeals the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit qualified contract exit option for buildings receiving allocations after 2024, preserves the option for earlier buildings, revises fair-market-value purchase language, and directs Treasury regulations.
Key Policy Areas
Affordable Housing, Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, Tax
Primary Purpose
Repeals the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit qualified contract exit option for buildings receiving allocations after 2024, preserves the option for earlier buildings, revises fair-market-value purchase language, and directs Treasury regulations.
Policy Domains
Resolution provisions
Identified Gains
- Low-income tenants in LIHTC properties
- State housing credit agencies
- Affordable housing preservation nonprofits
- Local governments facing affordable housing shortages
Identified Costs
- LIHTC property owners
- Housing credit agencies
- Internal Revenue Service
- LIHTC investors
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Neguse introduced the following bill; which was referred to …
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
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Affordable housing preservation nonprofits, LIHTC investors, LIHTC property owners
Positive-direction: Low-income tenants in LIHTC properties
Negative-direction: LIHTC investors
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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