The New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency, in its revised Market Study Guidelines for its 2009 low-income housing tax credit program, will now require analysts conducting market studies for proposed LIHTC projects in New Jersey to certify that “he or she is a certified member of the National Council of Affordable Housing Market Analysts.” New Jersey joins a growing list of state agencies that have wholly or partially adopted NCAHMA’s standards as part of their low-income housing tax credit regulations.  read more…