Land Trust and Joint Ventures

Land Trusts are a unique form of partnership between TSAHC and developers that creates long-term affordable housing opportunities for Texans. Our land trust programs can be used for both homeownership and rental communities.

Benefits of our Texas land trust services include:

• TSAHC can hold rental properties in trust, eliminating property taxes and ensuring affordability for low-income renters. This applies to property that a partner already owns as well as property being considered for purchase.
• TSAHC can hold land in trust while the local partner redevelops. Once improvements are sold to low-income households, TSAHC can retain title to the land, lower the cost of home ownership and preserve affordability long-term.

To learn more about rental land trust, read through our Joint Venture Guidelines. You may also contact us at: [email protected], or schedule a virtual meeting by using the link below.

To learn more home ownership land trusts, please contact us at: [email protected], or schedule a virtual meeting by using the link below.

Schedule a Meeting

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Draft 2026 Joint Venture Development Guidelines 

The Texas State Affordable Housing Corporation (TSAHC) Draft Joint Venture Development Guidelines are now available for public comment. A copy of the 2026 Draft Joint Venture Development Guidelines may be found by clicking the link below:

2026 Draft Joint Venture Development Guidelines

Please submit public comment via email to [email protected]

with the subject line “2026 JV Development Guidelines Public Comment.” Public comment must be submitted for consideration by ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­March 2, 2026, at 5:00 p.m.

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Program Policies

Below are links to our program policies. Potential applicants should familiarize themselves with these before submitting any applications.

ACT - Program Policies
ACT - Joint Venture Guidelines