Housing Affairs Letter

National Digest

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Notes From Inside The Beltway

An interim rule governing the Homeless Emergency Assistance & Rapid Transition to Housing: Continuum of Care Program published in July 2012 is in its final stages of development. HUD received 551 comments on the interim rule with 42 of them addressing the CoC formula. HUD

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Notes From Inside The Beltway

Responsible homeownership and a dramatically reduced federal government role in housing finance top the Republican Party platform adopted at the GOP convention in Cleveland, OH. If Republicans sweep the November elections, some of the Obama administration’s signature

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Notes From Inside The Beltway

Calling rental housing affordability America’s “silent crisis,” the J. Ronald Terwilliger Foundation for Housing America’s Families intends to make a big splash at the Republican Convention in Cleveland to spotlight the issue. The foundation, reinforced by backing from several other

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Notes From Inside The Beltway

The U.S. Supreme Court agrees to review a lawsuit brought by the city of Miami, FL against the Bank of America and Wells Fargo alleging the banks engaged in discriminatory lending practices resulting in reduced property tax revenues. The city alleged that the lenders steered

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Notes From Inside The Beltway

A new study by the Center on Budget & Policy Priorities illustrates how federal housing spending disproportionately benefits higher income homeowners while leaving 75% of qualified low income renters without housing opportunities. Chart Book: Federal Housing Spending is

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Notes From Inside The Beltway

A quick roundup of housing-related news from the nation's capital.

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Notes From Inside The Beltway

A bill titled Housing for Homeless Students Act -- HR 5290 -- would allow fulltime students who are or recently have been homeless to qualify for rental housing supported through the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program. Because current law bans tax credits from being

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Notes From Inside The Beltway

While single-family home and apartment construction increased moderately in most of the 11 Federal Home Loan Bank districts, construction was mixed in the Richmond and Dallas districts and down in some markets, according to the latest Beige Book, the economic outlook primer

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Notes From Inside The Beltway

aising the minimum wage will do little to help ease the country out of its rental housing dilemma. The National Low Income Housing Coalition’s latest “Out of Reach” report shows there is no relief in sight for the affordable housing crisis. The report, compiled annually, shows the average

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Notes From Inside The Beltway

Inclusionary housing programs do not lead to significant declines in overall housing production or increases in market-rate prices. That’s’ the conclusion reached in a new study – “Separating Fact from Fiction to Design Effective Programs” -- compiled by the National Housing

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