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Council directs rewrite of Low‑Income Housing Tax Credit policy and issues ‘no objection’ resolutions for four applications
Summary
Council voted to have staff rewrite the city policy for evaluating 9% LIHTC applications, adding geographic indexing and minimum point thresholds, and then voted to issue resolutions of no objection for four proposed affordable housing projects while asking staff to align the rewrite with a regional housing plan.
The City Council on Feb. 4 directed the city manager to rewrite the city’s policy for evaluating 9% low‑income housing tax credit (LIHTC) applications and set a 240‑day timeline for a recommended final policy aligned with the city’s regional housing plan. The rewrite will consider a geographic index for location‑based scoring, minimum point thresholds to qualify for city letters of support or letters of no objection, and an option to designate a single city location in a given year for focused consideration.
At the same meeting council also voted to issue “letters of no objection” — documents that add local points when developers apply to the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) — for four 2025…
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