Tax Credit Advisor · on the ROAD to Housing Act's new CDBG new-construction authority
The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act (Public Law 119-101, enacted July 11) made new home construction an eligible CDBG use, capped at 20 percent of each recipient's annual allocation for awards issued in FY2027 and beyond. A Tax Credit Advisor analysis of FY2026 allocations ($3.298 billion across 1,302 awards) put the theoretical ceiling at $659.6 million, with a median of $178,796 per recipient. HUD had not published implementation guidance as of publication.
The 50 largest CDBG grantees received 44 percent of FY2026 allocated funding.
NLIHC published an analysis of National Housing Preservation Database summary data showing that Low-Income Housing Tax Credit units account for more than half of federally assisted rental homes in 25 states and the District of Columbia. The database's count of federally assisted homes spans Section 8 contracts, public housing, LIHTC, project-based vouchers, USDA programs, and the national Housing Trust Fund, among others.
The figures come from the NHPD's August 2026 summary reporting.
The OCC and FDIC proposed on August 12 raising the asset threshold for the full large-bank Community Reinvestment Act examination from $1.649 billion to more than $10 billion, which would move banks between those sizes out of the separate community-development test that has driven bank capital into LIHTC investments. Industry participants told the outlet CRA motivation often raises the price investors pay for housing tax credits by about ten cents per dollar, and that reduced incentives could lower equity pricing. Public comment is due October 13.
Shelterforce · on 440,000 assisted homes reaching subsidy end dates by 2030
Shelterforce reported that 440,159 federally assisted homes reach their latest tracked federal subsidy or restriction end date between 2026 and 2030, based on new National Housing Preservation Database tabulations prepared for the outlet. The tabulations show 328,827 LIHTC homes with tracked affordability end dates in that window — 12.3 percent of the tax-credit stock tracked in the database. The article described the count as a preservation calendar, not a prediction of how many homes will be lost.