DCA: credits supported roughly 2,300 units last year but statewide need remains far larger

DCA staff told the committee that Georgia tax credit properties are "currently home to more than 100,000 Georgia families" and that the year's credit allocation yielded about 2,300 units of housing. "Georgia tax credit properties are currently home to more than 100,000 Georgia families," Laurel Hart said; later a staffer summarized production, saying "this year we had about twenty five hundred units twenty actually twenty three hundred units."

Committee members pressed staff on whether credit allocations keep pace with rising construction costs and growing demand; staff said increasing construction costs and the need to preserve aging portfolio units reduce capacity for new development. Legislators also raised that statewide need is geographically uneven and that DCA performs market studies to estimate county‑level need and purchase‑price limits for programs.