Since 1986, low‐income housing tax credits (LIHTCs) are the main way in which the federal government tries to increase the amount of affordable housing for low‐income families.

A new Government Accountability Office report on the Low Income Housing Tax Credit echoes some of the concerns about the programs vulnerability to abuse that Vanessa Brown Calder and I suggested in a 2017 Cato report.

A new GAO study examines the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, which is a complex government program aimed at increasing the supply of affordable housing.

A recent Heritage Foundation analysis found that the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit is complex and inefficient.

Federal funding of state activities induces state and local governments to spend wastefully because the money comes “free” from Washington.

In our recent study on the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC), Vanessa Brown Calder and I discussed how subsidized housing projects usually cost more than market-based ones.

Yesterday HUD Secretary Ben Carson tweeted that “The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit [LIHTC] is one of the most effective tools we have to create affordable housing.”

As Republicans assemble their tax reform legislation, Cato has released a study on one corporate tax break that is ripe for repeal.

A main goal of the House Republican tax plan is to reduce marginal tax rates, which are the rates that affect economic decisionmaking.

Republicans have promised major tax reform, and Cato has suggestions for policymakers.