HB 1797 - DIGEST |
(SEE ALSO PROPOSED 1ST SUB) |
Provides cities limited sales tax remittance for qualifying investments. |
Provides cities and counties: (1) With the authority to use real estate excise taxes to support affordable housing; and |
(2) With councilmanic authority to impose the affordable housing sales tax. |
Requires a city, when the application for a remittance is approved, to create an affordable housing and local infrastructure account to be used for the city's acquisition or construction of affordable housing or local infrastructure. |
Requires certain taxes to be used for the development of affordable housing including acquisition, building, rehabilitation, and maintenance and operation of housing for very low, low, and moderate-income persons and those with special needs. |