The Very Real Costs
of not Investing in Missouri

The Missouri HPTC Program

43,150 new or retained jobs with an average salary of $42,732.
$669,872,192 new sales/use and income tax revenue to the state and local governments.
$2.9 billion in leveraged private investment.
Higher-than-expected rates of annual job growth.
Higher-than-expected increases in high- paying sustainable jobs

0Counties

of 115 in MO have used the program

90%

90% of net new jobs in Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services; Management; Educational Services; and Real Estate since 2000 can be found in HPTC counties.

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Data Aggregated From 2000-2009
Numbers Have Since Increased Exponentially

STUDY MADE POSSIBLE THANKS TO

FUNDING PROVIDED BY:

DFC Group
Downtown Council of Kansas City
Kansas City Port Authority
Missouri Growth Association
Missouri Municipal League
Partnership for Downtown St. Louis
Urban District Alliance of Springfield

SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY
Sarah L. Coffin, Ph.D.
Department of Public Policy Studies

Rob Ryan MAUA
Community & Social Research

Ben McCall
Department of Public Policy Studies

Missouri’s LIHTC Program

President Reagan understood government didn’t excel at building houses. In 1986 he established the nation’s first Low Income Housing program leveraging private investment & efficiency to meet a basic need.