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NC Housing Coalition
Mission and Vision Our mission is to lead a campaign for
housing that ensures working families, people in crisis, seniors and persons with disabilities may live with dignity and opportunity.
We envision that all North Carolina communities include an ample supply of quality affordable homes.
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1. Increase state investment in safe, quality, affordable housing
2. Increase and maintain protections & rights for tenants and homeowners
3. Ensure consumer protections are in place to prevent abuses by banks and finance companies
4. Create affordable access to utilities, transportation, and other services
NC Legislative Priorities
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• Election year – all state legislators• First term governor• Speaker running for Senate• $445 million budget shortfall• Contentious issues: coal ash cleanup,
teacher compensation
NC Legislative Landscape
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• Administered by NC Housing Finance Agency Paired with the federal LIHTC $35 - $45M yearly investment Operates as a long-term, non-
amortizing loan
• Not eliminated by 2013 tax reform; not extended past sunset of Jan. 1, 2015
NC State Housing Credit
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NC State Housing Credit
• Rebranded - Workforce Housing Investment Program (WHIP)
• Several potential vehicles to extend sunset
• Option of including as special provision in the budget
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• Administered by NC Housing Finance Agency Supportive Housing Rental Development Financing Urgent Repair Program Mortgage Assistance for Low-Income
Homeownership Flexible source of funding for housing
production and rehab
NC Housing Trust Fund
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NC Housing Trust Fund
• No cut in Governor’s budget - $7M
• Senate will be first to take up budget Appropriations Subcommittee on General
Government (www.ncleg.net)
• Will work for dedicated revenue source in 2015 long session
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Other State Efforts
GA – GA State Trade Association of Nonprofit Developers
KY – Homeless and Housing Coalition of Kentucky
SC – Affordable Housing Coalition of South Carolina
TN – Tennessee Housing Coalition
VA – Virginia Housing Coalition
Carley RuffPolicy Director
919.881.0707www.nchousing.org