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United Building Company · Affordable housing · Southern California

The number your contractor puts in your application decides whether CTCAC can recommend your project at all.

Past thirty percent over your adjusted threshold basis limit, staff cannot recommend the project. Under it, your contractor’s labor structure and delivery decide how much basis you are allowed to claim in the first place. Both numbers are set before you file, not after the award.

Every figure in the check is one you enter. It is just as useful no matter who you build with.

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The cliff
“A project will be designated "high cost" if a project's total eligible basis exceeds its total adjusted threshold basis limit by 30%. Staff shall not recommend such project for credits.”
CTCAC Regulations, Section 10325(c), adopted December 10, 2025
30%
over the adjusted limit and staff cannot recommend the project for credits.
+5%
to the limit for a project labor agreement or a skilled and trained workforce. Your contractor either can certify it or cannot.
+20%
of further headroom available across the energy and resource items, which are delivery decisions made before you file.

The contractor is named in the application itself, and the readiness points that decide a competitive round require an executed construction contract and a notice to proceed inside a hundred and eighty days of reservation. By the time an award is published the choice has already been made and filed. That is why this page is addressed to the work you are doing now rather than to a project you have already won.

The check

Threshold basis headroom

Enter your own numbers. Nothing is stored and nothing is sent anywhere.

Delivery and labor

These are the ones your contractor decides with you.

Energy and resource

The regulation caps this group at a further 20% in total.

Project and site

Adjusted threshold basis limit
$36,000,000
50% in increases applied

Your basis against that limit-13.9%
Basis left before the 30% cliff$15,800,000

Attributable to the contractor
$9,600,000
40% of your adjusted limit comes from elections a contractor delivers.
Not currently claimed
  • $1,200,000 · Project labor agreement, or a skilled and trained workforce
  • $4,800,000 · All electric
  • $3,600,000 · Electric ready (rehabilitation projects)
  • $1,200,000 · Onsite renewable generation, 50%+ of annual tenant electricity
  • $480,000 · Onsite renewable generation, 75%+ of common area electricity

Each one has conditions, and several need a certification signed by your architect. They are listed so you can rule them in or out deliberately rather than by default.

Have Mark walk these numbers with you

This check uses the percentages in the adopted CTCAC regulations and the figures you enter. The unadjusted limits are published by CTCAC and change, so use the limit in effect for your application. Several increases require a certification signed by the project architect. The determination that governs your project is CTCAC's, not ours.

What the number buys

A building is a spreadsheet until somebody puts people in it.

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What goes in the contract

The terms, not the argument.

A developer does not change contractors because of a well-made point. These are the items your lender and your investor will ask for, and the ones we are prepared to put in writing.

Single-project bonding limit
United to confirm
Aggregate bonding capacity
United to confirm
Surety and rating
United to confirm
Named superintendent, assigned for the duration
United to confirm
Liquidated damages tied to the placed-in-service date
United to confirm
Fixed general conditions line in the GMP
United to confirm
Skilled and trained workforce certification
United to confirm
Who you would be dealing with

Mark Walther

United to confirm Tenure line held until Mark confirms it in writing.

Bring your current estimate and your unit mix. He will walk the basis limit with you, show you which increases your delivery already earns and which ones it is leaving, and tell you plainly where he thinks the number is wrong. You keep that whether or not we build it.

Set a time with Mark Walther

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