By cutting rates for the wealthy, the Tax Act slashes the value of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit.
Alyssa Katz
Alyssa Katz is the author of Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us and a senior fellow with the Pratt Center for Community Development.
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Housing is Local, and Lending Should Be, Too
We’re just now learning how dangerous it is that the sources of finance for homeowners and their neighborhoods have no real connection to those people and places.