Several housing policy priorities may jump to the front burner during the lame duck Congress, including the National Disaster Tax Relief Act, the FY ‘15 HUD budget and tax extenders legislation. Also, with an eye toward the next NH legislative session, Housing…
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Friday, December 12 Sheraton Needham, Needham MA Details and registration here. Make your plans to attend! Event highlights include keynote by Congressman Barney Frank (retired), national speakers, plenaries and workshops on The 100,000 Homes Campaign, affordable housing messaging, Federal budget and legislative…
This issue of Housing Action NH’s newsletter provides important state and federal policy updates as well as a detailed election guide for housing advocates on raising affordable housing issues with candidates this election season. An early filing period for 2015 state legislative service requests…
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Update as of 6-9-14 includes President’s, House and Senate Committee proposals for select HUD and USDA housing programs.
As reported in our May News & Legislative Update, House Bill 1409 to end discriminatory rental practices against voucher holders and victims of domestic violence was amended in the Senate to instead create a Study Commission. The House did not…
The National Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2014, S.2233, was recently introduced in the Senate. In addition to providing tax relief for the communities impacted by Hurricane Sandy, this bill would also provide relief to all of the communities impacted…
The House Appropriations Committee passed its Transportation-Housing & Urban Development (T-HUD) bill last week in a 28-21 vote. While the House bill level funds many key programs, the proposed cut to HOME could be another hit to this valued program…
The US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs approved housing finance reform legislation on May 15 by a vote of 13-9. However, because the measure was unable to garner support from six key Democratic senators on the Committee,…