Some Local Affordable Housing Projects Already Affected by Trump’s Election

The election of Donald Trump had an immediate impact on a number of affordable housing projects in Columbus — an impact that was felt before he took office and long before any actual policy decisions were made by his new administration.
The reason has to do with the central importance of Low Income Housing Tax Credits to the affordable housing business. Developers, many of them nonprofit organizations, apply for the credits from the Ohio Housing Finance Agency (OHFA) and use them to financ