OMB/HUD Soliciting Comments on Expanded Project and Tenant Data Collection for LIHTC Properties; Find Proposed Forms Here.

On February 24th. HUD published a Notice of a planned expansion of the data to be collected and included in an expanded LIHTC tenant database, as required by the Reform Act.

Expanded data includes tenant income and rent paid information, AND race/ethnicity disabled status information.

HUD's publication in the Federal Register is HERE; any comments are to submitted as follows, by COB March 26,2010 :

Comments should refer to the proposal by name [Low Income Housing Tax Credit Tenant Database] and/or OMB approval Number (2528–0165) and should be sent to: HUD Desk Officer,Office of Management and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20503; fax: 202–395–5806.

Following publication of the HUD Notice in the Federal Register I requested from HUD a copy of the proposed forms to be used to collect the data.

On a Sunday no less a HUD HQS staffer (Leroy McKinney Jr.) was good enough to send the proposed data collection forms to me. This was above and beyond the call of duty on a Sunday, so props to Leroy for doing so.

• The HUD proposed project level data collection form is HERE.
• The HUD proposed tenant level form data collection form is HERE.
• Note that instructions/definitions are on the back pages of each form.

Once data collection begins using the new forms, I anticipate this will result in an eventual expansion/update to the existing HUD LIHTC database HERE. (More HUD background on the existing LIHTC database is HERE).

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.