OAR 150-317-0190: Affordable Housing Credit; Definitions; Transfers; Carry Forward of Unused Credit

(1) Definitions, as used in ORS 317.097. (a) Community Rehabilitation Program. A "community rehabilitation program" is a program sponsored by a nonprofit corporation or local government unit for the rehabilitation of low income housing. (b) Project. A "project" is one or more units of housing that will be sold or rented to households whose incomes are less than 80 percent of the area median income. (c) Time the qualified loan for housing construction, development, acquisition or rehabilitation is made. The "time the qualified loan for housing construction, development, acquisition or rehabilitation is made" is the date a note is signed for a loan and the interest rate becomes effective with the closing of the loan, or the date a conversion loan becomes a permanent loan. Either date may be used to determine the interest rate on nonsubsidized loans made under like terms and conditions as the qualifying affordable housing loan. (2) If a qualifying loan is transferred by a lending institution to another entity, the transferee's credit must be computed in the same way and subject to the same limitations as the prior lending institution's credit. The transferee cannot claim a credit on the loan beyond the 20 year period that started with the date the loan was originally made. (3) Unused credits from tax years starting before January 1, 1995 may be carried forward 15 years. Unused credits from tax years starting on or after January 1, 1995 may be carried forward 5 years. (4) See OAR 813-110-0005 through 813-110-0040 for Housing and Community Development Department rules relating to the Oregon Affordable Housing Tax Credit Program.