
On April 5, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) introduced the the Protecting Americans from Credit Entanglements Act of 2017 (S. 838), which would subject Property Assessed Clean Energy loans (PACE loans) to federal mortgage regulations authorized by the Truth-in-Lending Act (TILA). […]
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On April 5, Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) introduced a bill in the Senate that would classify municipal bonds as high-quality liquid assets. […]
Read More… from Senator Mark Warner Introduces Bill That Would Classify Municipal Bonds as High-Quality Liquid Assets

Section 101 – Average income test – Under current law, Housing Credit apartments serve renters with incomes up to 60 percent of area median income (AMI) and rents are comparably restricted. […]
Read More… from Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2017 Section by Section Analysis

Introduced in March 2017, the bill expands and strengthens the Housing Credit program. […]
Read More… from H.R.1661 – Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2017

Proposes funding for all federal programs, including HUD and USDA rural housing programs, for FY 2018. […]
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Across the nation, millions of America’s families are struggling to pay their rent each month. Growing numbers of low income seniors, people with disabilities, families with children, and other vulnerable people have more month than money. NLIHC’s annual report, Out of Reach, documents the gap between renters’ wages and the cost of rental housing. […]
Read More… from The National Low Income Housing Coalition | Out of Reach 2017

Proposes funding for all federal programs, including HUD and USDA rural housing programs, for FY 2019. […]
Read More… from Administration’s FY 2019 Budget

Provides interim guidance on how states should comply with the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule until HUD finalizes the state Assessment of Fair Housing (AFH) Tool. […]
Read More… from HUD Interim Guidance on How States Should Comply with AFFH

Over the next twenty years, the population aged 65 and over is expected to grow from 48 million to 79 million. Meanwhile, the number of households headed by someone in that age group will increase by 66 percent to almost 50 million—with the result that by 2035, an astounding one out of three American […]
Read More… from Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University | Projections and Implications for Housing a Growing Population: Older Adults 2015-2035