Allison Gray, Dudley Ventures
I support the New Markets Tax Credit because it has been instrumental in creating thousands of jobs and fostering economic development in low-income urban and non-metro areas, significantly improving the quality of life for residents in these communities. Additionally, the NMTC has enhanced access to healthcare and education, leading to better health outcomes and educational […]
Chris Edgington, Rural Development Partners
We work on redeveloping rural America and the NMTC is a vital piece of the success being seen in low-income rural America.
Jeanne C Marra, MarrComm Partners, LLC
As a financial empowerment professional, I value the New Markets Tax Credits tool for bringing subsidized capital into underserved and low-income communities to promote economic and community development, including creating quality jobs, expanding access to vital community services, and increasing for-sale affordable homes.
Alan Lesher, YMCA of the Inland Northwest
The NMTC Program provided vital funding to help our community create a YMCA facility in an area of great need. Without this funding this project would not have been possible.
Mayor Lisa Brown, City of Spokane
Forty-three of the City of Spokane’s 74 census tracts (58%) are eligible for NMTCs. We look to the New Markets Tax Credit program as a flexible and effective financing tool for creating living wage jobs and providing goods and services in low-income census tracts.
Jennifer Godfrey, Utah Community Action
The New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) program has been instrumental in helping our agency develop new facilities that not only serve our community but also incorporate a social enterprise component, ensuring long-term sustainability. This strategic investment leverages taxpayer dollars effectively, driving economic growth while expanding critical services for those in need.
Ric Oswald, Habitat for Humanity of St. Joseph County
We have used NMTC funding in the past with a great amount of success as we were able to help families (build homes) achieve their dream of homeownership that perhaps they may not have been able to without the funding. We have a new subdivision development coming on stream soon where we are hoping to […]
Sarah Reddinger, Habitat for Humanity Metro Maryland
Habitat for Humanity Metro Maryland recently utilized New Markets Tax Credits to help build 24 condos and 3 single family homes in Silver Spring, MD. NMTCs were critical in filling a financing gap, allowing this project to move forward.
Cathryn Couch, Ceres Community Project
The NMTC program was essential in our ability to build a new facility to expand youth workforce development and provision of medically tailored meals to low-income community members living with serious illness. The facility will serve as a Community Resilience Center during disasters and provide vital services to a low-income community while growing jobs and […]
Jann Baird, Nelson & Nelson PLLC
The NMTC has a twenty-five-year track record of delivering financing to small businesses, daycare centers, health clinics, manufacturing expansions, workforce training programs, broadband expansions, schools, business incubators, disaster relief efforts, and other revitalization projects that strengthen communities and generate long-term economic growth. Instead of Washington picking winners and losers, the NMTC empowers local decision-making on […]
Lauren McGowan, Lisc Puget Sound
We support the New Markets Tax Credit because it brings critical investment to communities across Washington State—including the Puget Sound region—where traditional financing often falls short. From expanding health centers to supporting small businesses and job training, NMTC has helped drive inclusive economic growth in places that need it most. Making the credit permanent ensures […]
Shauna Reed, Catholic Charities of the Northwest California
We were afforded the opportunity to help the community most vulnerable with these tax credits and would like other organizations to have the same capabilities, so we can help a more significant amount of people.
Karen E. Rodriguez, Canal Alliance
We and members of our community have greatly benefited from this program, and we support the effort to make it permanent so this good work can continue.
Jim Coyle, ECB
This minimal investment from government generates substantial private investment in projects that benefit local communities.
Kiyoshi Ikeda, COMMUNITY ARTS STABILIZATION TRUST
This program works and benefits all participating parties, while enabling larger scale projects with commensurate scaling of community benefits as an important requirement. Please continue to support NMTC and the Extension Act of 2025.
kelly ehrenfeld, Equity Community Builders
NMTCs are a critical financing tool providing both tax credits to private/banking institutions and equity to projects spurring development in underinvested communities.
Jonathon Andrus, Siskiyou Hospital, Inc. dba Fairchild Medical Center
The NMTC increases access to health care for our rural communities.
Michael Kramer, Natural Investments
The NMTC is a critical economic development engine.
Ruth Sparrow, Future Unlimited Law PC
By investing capital in underserved communities, the NMTC creates economic opportunities, jobs and business development in rural and urban low-income communities and catalyzes economic development
Ann Margaret Claussen, Central Florida Health Care
Central Florida Health Care, Inc. is a Federally Qualified Health Center providing care to over 80,000 patients each year. We have benefited from two NMTC projects that has allowed us to build and expand new health centers in Polk, Highlands, and Hardee counties. This is a wonderful opportunity to allow community health centers and other […]
Preston Kendall, Cristo Rey St. Martin College Prep
Our school for low-income students has benefited greatly from the NMTC program and we have contributed to a wider improvement in community economics and property values.
Kurt Peterson
The NMTC helps generate investment in jobs , health care and community services
Jeffrey Monge, Monge Capital
Critical and flexible economic growth financing unmatched in industry for commercial real estate and business investment.
Charlie Buchanan, Habitat for Humanity Tucson
Investment in low-income communities is critical, and without incentive equity and opportunity in communities across the Nation will be a distant remembrance.
Erin McPartland, Maumee Valley Habitat for Humanity
This is a critical source of funding for affordable housing units that fills financing gaps, catalyzes investment in underserved areas, enables mixed-use mission driven projects, and pairs well with other subsidies.
Brandon Sehlhorst, City of Toledo
The NMTC program has been critical to advancing signature redevelopment projects in Toledo. The need for resources is great, especially in redevelopment projects in distressed areas. We strongly encourage legislators to consider making this program permanent so that it can continue to benefit high impact projects in some of our most undeserved communities.
tom kroma, LISC Toledo
The NMTC is a must have tool to provide continued investment in economically distressed communities across the country.
Joe Cordella, Historic South Initiative
Any programs that contribute to affordable housing are going to be beneficial to our neighborhood.
Lindsay Williams
The NMTC has made a major difference in our community – especially in the vibrancy of our downtown, our ability to attract talent, and providing services in dignified environments to those who need them. Please continue with these investments!
Donna VanNess, Housing Channel
The NMTC is an amazing tool to create both homeownership opportunities for working families AND create new market initiatives that revitalize disadvantaged neighborhoods.
Lata Ramachandran, Marillac Health
[The NMTC] serves underserved communities, bringing much needed services to them and helps the community thrive
Daniel Becker, Marillac Health
Help grow the community and bring in new needed resources for the underserved.
Damita Wren, Economic Growth Corporation
Yes. It has great positive impacts on desolate communities promoting small businesses and residents.
Kwaku Osei, The LOVE Building
Our organization has been a major beneficiary of NMTC and may not have been able to complete our project without it
Kyle Smitley, Detroit Achievement Academy
I work in the poorest neighborhoods in Detroit and have seen my communities completely transformed because of the two NMTC investments into our two school buildings — it’s built generational wealth for our neighbors due to the removal of blight with the buildings transformed into the top schools in the city. The NMTC program has […]
Alexa O’Brien, Detroit Achievement Academy and Detroit Prep
Because of the NMTC, we get to operate two of the most incredible schools in Detroit (in the nation?), schools that are worthy of the incredible future world-changers who walk through our doors each day.