New Hampshire Housing is holding its first public forum to discuss the 2019 Qualified Allocation Plan on January 22nd, 2018 from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm at the New Hampshire Audubon McLane Center in Concord.

  

In order to encourage discussion on a range of topics, this forum will be conducted as a series of small discussion groups, with each group discussing the questions listed below for approximately 10 minutes per question. After each group has had a chance to discuss each question, there will be a "report-out" during which the larger group will convene and share thoughts from their discussion. Please come equipped to discuss these questions.

1. The New Hampshire QAP currently requires that all projects receiving LIHTCs enter into an affordability period for 99 years. By law, the minimum is 30 years.  Would you favor a change to a shorter affordability period? What is the right length? How would you feel about a different compliance period for projects using 4% and 9% LIHTCs?
2.  The New Hampshire QAP awards significant points for "proposed and likely" contributions of other permanent funding sources, with a much smaller additional incentive for firm commitments. New Hampshire Housing is considering rebalancing these points categories so that firm commitments are much more valuable relative to proposed and likely funding sources. How would you feel about this change? Do you have any thoughts about the merit of incentivizing leveraged funds, more generally?
3. The points incentive for providing a 600 square foot community room was added to the QAP two years ago.  Is it still a good idea?  Authority staff have considered removing this points category, in part because some projects have ample community space in adjacent facilities, and in part because we have been told that the space is underutilized in some properties.  If you didn't get points for building a community room, would you still include one in your projects?  Why or why not?
4. Several market rate developments have been built or proposed in New Hampshire that include micro-apartments of 250 to 400 square feet.  Do you think these types of units have a place in affordable housing?
5. What issues do you think we should be considering in revising the Qualified Allocation Plan?
6. If you ran New Hampshire Housing, and could rewrite the QAP, what is the first thing you would change?