The AHTCC is a trade organization of housing professionals who advocate for affordable rental housing financed using the Housing Credit. Our for-profit and non-profit members—including syndicators, investors, lenders, developers, legal and accounting professionals, state allocating agencies, public agencies, and coalitions—seek to preserve, expand and improve the Housing Credit and complementary programs through legislative outreach and education.

History of the AHTCC

The AHTCC was founded in 1988 to advocate to make the Housing Credit permanent, and quickly assumed a leading role in coordinating the efforts of many concerned stakeholders, both on Capitol Hill and throughout the country. The Housing Credit was made permanent in 1993. Since then, the AHTCC has been at the forefront of every major effort to protect, strengthen and expand the Housing Credit.

The AHTCC commends Congress for preserving the Housing Credit in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, as well as Private Activity Bonds, which provide critical financing to more than half of all affordable housing developments. The AHTCC also applauds Congress for having enacted provisions to strengthen and expand the Housing Credit in 2018.

The AHTCC’s top legislative priority is expanding and strengthening the Housing Credit as proposed in the bipartisan Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act (AHCIA), reintroduced in 2019. Learn more about the AHCIA and the AHTCC’s legislative priorities.

For more information about the AHTCC, see our About Us or listen to AHTCC Executive Director Emily Cadik’s interview on the Jennifer Hammond Show.