links

General

Epodunk.com: Helpful with giving the name of all cities in a county or the county name for a city, and a lot of additional information
Walkscore.com: Scores the “walkability” of a given address and gives the location of various community services.
realmarketing.com: Links to assessor/auditor web pages.
Lihtc.huduser.org: Gives detailed information for low income properties and can be filtered in many different ways to fit specifications. Note that this is only updated through 2005 allocations.
Washington State Housing Commission: This link is hard to find from the Washington State Housing Commission’s website, but it is an excellent tool for low income housing in Washington.
Housing Authority Search: Lists the various Housing Authorities throughout the United States
Senior Outlook: A search site for senior housing
QTC Sites: QCTSites.com is the only online listing database of hand-picked Qualified Census Tract (QCT) and Difficult to Develop Area (DDA) development opportunities for affordable housing developers. Our expert staff remains cognoscente of any and all Qualified Allocation Plan (QAP) updates to ensure the validity of each and every development opportunity. Each QAP has established site specific requirements and selection criteria that dictate where the credits will be allocated. We exploit the often unforeseen transparency of the QAP in site identification.
HUD: The Department of Housing and Urban Development
OHFA: The Ohio Housing Finance Agency
NCAHMA: Created to provide a peer network among real estate market analysts who focus part of their practice on affordable housing properties, the National Council of Affordable Housing Market Analysts (NCAHMA) is a membership organization devoted to education, information and resource sharing. The Council provides a forum for market analysts to interact with each other, state agencies (both directly and through the National Council of State Housing Agencies), the Affordable Housing Investors Council and other interested parties. NCAHMA works to increase awareness of the benefits and value of properly conducted market analyses. Furthermore, NCAHMA affords the opportunity for market analysts to discuss current issues, network and gain invaluable information. As an autonomous organization within National Housing & Rehabilitation Association (NH&RA), a trade association established in 1971 for affordable housing professionals, the membership dues structure is the same for both NCAHMA and NH&RA, extending full NH&RA member benefits to all NCHAMA members.
Rural Development - USDA: USDA website that provides information on rural development.
HUD federal and local consolidated plans: Certain cities, counties and states have posted consolidated plans and reports on their website. Click on your state to view local consolidated plans and reports.

State Deadlines

Federal Deadlines: Federal Tax Credit Information by State
State Deadlines: State Tax Credit Information