LAS VEGAS — Twelve tribal housing projects have received Arizona Low
Income Housing Tax Credit awards since 2001, according to Sheila Harris,
director of the Arizona Department of Housing.
LIHTC awards are a national program determined by the number of people in a
state, but are administered by state agencies, usually housing finance
agencies. Tribes are eligible since the per capita figures used in the
awards’ calculations include tribal populations.
Tax credit deals got a slow start in Indian country because of traditional
tribal-state government tensions, but are now commonplace.
Harris told a recent legal symposium, sponsored in Las Vegas by the
National American Indian Housing Council, that the state has implemented a
Tribal Housing Initiative Task Force that has been funded at $2.5 million
per year for the past two years.
Some of those projects funded have included the Bee Hogan Shelter
Foundation’s rehabilitation and construction project on the Navajo Nation
that received $550,000 from the state fund, a multifamily duplex project
for the Yavapai Apache tribe that took in tax credits, emergency repair
funds for the Hopi Housing Authority when rains damaged 24 home roofs,
rehabs for the Pascua Yaqui Nation, and a tax credit deal for two- and
three-bedroom homes on the Fort Apache reservation.
In addition, the department has supported an Affordable Housing Institute
training course in which three tribes, including the Salt River
Pima-Maricopa, have participated.
In the Phoenix area, where 90,000 Indians live, Harris said the department
has supported Native American Connection, which has developed $49 million
of housing for 600 Native households.
The state has also received a planning grant to work on developing a
community development financial institution to serve all 22 Arizona tribes.
The state will re-apply to the Treasury Department, which runs the CDFI
Fund, to get a CDFI certification for this entity this winter. CDFIs invest
or lend in low-income areas, and have been increasing in Indian areas after
a slow start.
Harris noted that the 22 tribes control one-quarter of Arizona’s land area.
Arizona tribes
Ak-Chin Indian Community
42507 W. Peters and Nall Road
Maricopa, AZ 85239
Phone: (520) 568-1000
Fax: (520) 568-4566
Web site: www.ak-chin.nsn.us/main.html
Cocopah Indian Tribe
County 15th and Avenue G
Somerton, AZ 85350
Phone: (928) 627-2102
Fax: (928) 627-3173
E-mail: cocopah@cocopah.com
Web site: www.cocopah.com
Colorado River Indian Tribes
Route 1, Box 23-B
Parker, AZ 85344
Phone (928) 669-9211
Fax: (928) 669-1216
Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation
P.O. Box 17779
Fountain Hills, AZ 85269
Phone: (480) 837-5121
Fax: (480) 816-9524
Web site: www.ftmcdowell.org
Fort Mohave Indian Tribe
500 Merriman Ave.
Needles, CA 92363
Phone: (760) 629-4591
Fax: (760) 629-5767
Web site: www.itcaonline.com/tribes_mojave.html
Fort Yuma-Quechan Tribe
P.O. Box 1899
Yuma, AZ 85366
Phone: (760) 572-0213
Fax: (619) 572-2102
Web site: www.itcaonline.com/tribes_quechan.html
Gila River Indian Community
P.O. Box 97
Sacaton, AZ 85247
Phone: (520) 562-6000
Fax: (520) 562-6010
Web site: www.gric.nsn.us
Havasupai Tribe
P.O. Box 10
Supai, AZ 86435
Phone: (928) 448-2731
Fax: (928) 448-2551
E-mail: tribaloffice@havasupaitribe.com
Web site: www.havasupaitribe.com
Hopi Tribe
P.O. Box 123
Kykotsmovi, AZ 86039
Phone: (928) 734-3000
Fax: (928) 734-3289
E-mail: info@hopi.nsn.us
Web site: www.hopi.nsn.us
Hualapai Indian Tribe
P.O. Box 179
Peach Springs, AZ 86434
Phone: (928) 769-2216
Fax: (928) 769-2343
Web site: www.itcaonline.com/tribes_hualapai.html
Kaibab-Paiute Band
HC 65 Box 2
Fredonia, AZ 86022
Phone: (928) 643-7245
Fax: (928) 643-7260
Web site: www.itcaonline.com/tribes_kaibab.html
Navajo Nation
P.O. Drawer 9000
Window Rock, AZ 86515
Phone: (928) 871-6000
Fax: (928) 871-4025
E-mail: information@navajo.org
Web site: www.navajo.org
Pascua Yaqui Tribe
7474 S. Camino de Oeste
Tucson, AZ 85746
Phone: (520) 883-5000
Fax: (520) 883-5014
E-mail: contact@pascuayaqui-nsn.gov
Web site: www.pascuayaqui-nsn.gov
Pueblo of Zuni
P.O. Box 339
Zuni, N.M. 87327
Phone: (505) 782-7021
Fax: (505) 782-7202
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community
10005 E. Osborn Road
Scottsdale, AZ 85256
Phone: (480) 850-8000
Fax: (480) 850-8014
Web site: www.saltriver.pima-maricopa.nsn.us
San Carlos Apache Tribe
P.O. Box 0
San Carlos, AZ 85550
Phone: (928) 475-2361
Fax: (928) 475-2567
Web site: www.itcaonline.com/tribes_sancarl.html
San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe
P.O. Box 1989
Tuba City, AZ 86045
Phone: (928) 283-4587
Fax: (928) 283-5761
Web site: www.itcaonline.com/tribes_sanjuan.html
Tohono O’odham Nation
P.O. Box 837
Sells, AZ 85634
Phone: (520) 383-2028
Fax: (520) 383-3379
Web site: www.itcaonline.com/tribes_tohono.html
Tonto Apache Tribe
Tonto Reservation #30
Payson, AZ 85541
Phone: (928) 474-5000
Fax: (928) 474-9125
Web site: www.itcaonline.com/tribes_tonto.html
White Mountain Apache Tribe
P.O. Box 700
Whiteriver, AZ 85941
Phone: (928) 338-4346
Fax: (928) 338-1514
Web site: www.wmat.us
Yavapai-Apache Nation
2400 W. Datsi St.
Camp Verde, AZ 86322
Phone: (928) 567-1004
Fax: (928) 567-3994
Web site: www.yavapai-apache.org
Yavapai-Prescott Tribe
530 E. Merritt
Prescott, AZ 86301
Phone: (928) 445-8790
Fax (928) 778-9445
E-mail: wstirnaman@ypit.com
Web site: www.ypit.com
