The TCAC Track Record Feature: Accountability Through Public Data

What the TCAC Dataset Contains

The California Tax Credit Allocation Committee publishes data on every LIHTC award it has made since the program's inception. This dataset includes the project name and location, number of units and target population, credit type and award year, and the developer, builder, and property manager of record.

This is public data. But until now, it has not been easily accessible in a form that is useful for due diligence or partner selection. It exists as downloadable spreadsheets and database exports, valuable to analysts but not to practitioners looking for a quick read on an organization's experience.

What It Shows on a Profile

On every partner profile, the TCAC track record section aggregates all projects where that organization appears as a builder or property manager. Visitors can see:

• Total number of TCAC-financed projects completed
• Years of active participation in the program
• Geographic distribution — which counties and cities
• Individual project details: name, year, units, city, and target population

This gives anyone evaluating an organization an objective, independently verifiable measure of their affordable housing experience — not what they say they have done, but what the state's records show they have done.

Why This Matters for Due Diligence

For developers selecting contractors or consultants, the TCAC track record is one of the most useful data points available. A contractor with 40 TCAC-financed projects across 12 California counties has demonstrated depth and geographic range that a brochure cannot replicate. A property manager with 15 years of continuous TCAC project participation has demonstrated durability in the compliance environment.

For lenders and public agencies evaluating project teams, the track record provides a consistent, comparable measure of team experience that supplements the qualitative references and proposals they review.

Bridging Display Names to Data

One of the more technical challenges in surfacing this data is matching organization names between a partner's profile and the TCAC dataset. The same organization may appear under slightly different names — "BRIDGE Housing" vs. "BRIDGE Housing Corporation," for example — depending on how the project was filed.

Affordable Housing Partners handles this with an automated matching algorithm that normalizes organization names and finds the closest match in the TCAC data, with manual override capability for cases where the automated match needs adjustment. The result is that track records surface correctly even when names do not match exactly.

A Foundation for Trust

Affordable housing is a sector where projects take years to develop and where the consequences of a poor team selection can last for decades — in the form of compliance failures, deferred maintenance, and harm to residents. Trust is essential, and trust is earned through demonstrated performance over time.

The TCAC track record feature makes that demonstrated performance visible and accessible to everyone in the sector, not just those with access to insider information or private databases.