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Development Costs and Cost Drivers in the Housing Credit Program
The Low Income Housing Tax Credit (Housing Credit) is the most important public policy that directly supports the development of desperately needed rental apartments lower-income households can...
Housing Mobility Demonstration National Organization Letter of Support
This letter was sent to the Chairs, Vice Chair, and Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and the Senate Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing, Development and Related Agencies expressing support for funding of the Housing Choice Voucher Mobility Demonstration, signed by thirty organizations.
NCSHA Statement to House Financial Services Committee on GSE Reform Hearing
NCSHA's statement to the House Financial Services Committee for the Committee's hearing “A Failure to Act: How a Decade Without GSE Reform Has Once Again Put Taxpayers at Risk” held on September 6, 2018
GSE Reform Coalition Letter
Open letter addressed to the Administration and Congress titled, “A Defining Moment for Housing Finance: The Need to Preserve Access and Affordability,” signed by twenty nine agencies of the GSE Reform Coalition.
NCSHA Issues Statement for House Hearing on Multifamily Housing Regulatory Costs
NCSHA issued the following statement as the House Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance began a hearing on “The Cost of Regulation on Affordable Multifamily Development” on September 5, 2018.
S. 3231 Task Force on the Impact of Affordable Housing Crisis Act
Senator Young’s bill, the Task Force on the Impact of Affordable Housing Crisis Act, establishes an 18-member task force charged with evaluating and quantifying the impact of affordable housing on other government programs and making recommendations to Congress on how to use affordable housing to improve the effectiveness of other federal programs and improve life outcomes.
S. 3364 First-Time HomeBuyer Credit Act of 2018
Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Wyden (D-OR) introduced the First-Time Homebuyer Credit Act of 2018, S. 3364, which would create a refundable first-time homebuyer tax credit equal to 2.5 percent of the home purchase price up a maximum of $10,000. The credit would phase out for homes selling for $600,000 to $700,000. The credit would also phase out for individual taxpayers with incomes between $80,000 and $100,000 and joint taxpayers with incomes between $160,000 and $180,000.
S. 3365 Middle-Income Housing Credit Act of 2018
Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced the Middle Income Housing Tax Credit Act of 2018, S. 3365, which would create a new state-administered tax credit, modeled after the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (Housing Credit), to stimulate the development of rental housing for middle-income households earning up to 100 percent of area median gross income (AMGI).
NCSHA Submits Comments on HUD’s 2013 Final Rule Implementing the Fair Housing Act’s Disparate Impact Standard
On June 20, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking (proposed rule) inviting comments on HUD’s 2013 Implementation of the Fair...
