Build Strong Communities with your LIHTC Donation

Please consider designating at least 25% of your LIHTC donations to HDC.

Your gift provides a stable, sustainable funding source for our year-round work, building capacity and scalability for all organizations that develop and support affordable housing!

Our Work

With 35 years in the sector, HDC is uniquely positioned to foster collaboration toward a shared vision: a future in which all people live with dignity in safe, healthy, and affordable homes.

We Advocate

for funding and policy change to address the affordable housing crisis.

HDC has a proven record of successfully championing new funding for affordable housing development, including $165 mil from the King County Lodging Tax and $78 mil from Mandatory Housing Affordability.

We Broker

cross-sector relationships between partners in the housing sector and beyond.

Our current efforts include collaboration with federal elected officials like Sen. Maria Cantwell and Rep. DelBene to advocate for the 12.5% LIHTC expansion in the 2022 year-end legislation.

We Convene

our 200+ members and the broader community for growth and collaboration.

For 17+ years, HDC and our Tax Credits Affinity Group—the primary user group for the LIHTC program—have served as the interface between developers and the Washington State Housing Finance Commission.

Making a Donation

Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) donations can be made on both 9% projects (before Place in Service) and 4% projects (before close or resolution). To make a LIHTC donation, or for assistance with the donation process, please contact Paige España.

Need to share this information with your team? We have a PDF one-pager available: Build Strong Communities with your LIHTC Donation.

As you make decisions about your LIHTC donations, we highly encourage extending your donation across community-based and BIPOC-led organizations directly, many of which HDC supports through networking and capacity-building programs.

Our LIHTC Donors

We are extremely grateful to the following organizations that have contributed their LIHTC donations to HDC in support of our advocacy work and various member and community programs:

Compass Housing Alliance
Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC)
Imagine Housing
Inland Group
Mercy Housing Northwest
Multi-Service Center (MSC)
Plymouth Housing Group
Providence Health & Services
Seattle Housing Authority
Urban Impact Seattle
Vitus
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