Last week, NH&RA and other affordable housing organizations hosted a BABA briefing for the Build America Caucus to discuss the unintended consequences and potential solutions to BABA implementation and the waiver process at HUD.
A member of Rep. Goodlander’s (D-NH) team presented H.R. 9311: Build Housing Affordably Act, bipartisan legislation sponsored by Rep. Goodlander and Chair of the Housing and Insurance Subcommittee Mike Flood (R-NE). See details of the bill from our June 17 edition.
For More: Mike Kingsella, CEO of Up for Growth, and Chris LaGrand, Senior Vice President at Woda Cooper Companies wrote a Substack article titled “The $546,000 Door.”
The numbers from real projects make the case better than any argument can.
Door hardware. Outfitting a 40-unit building with standard imported door sets runs about $67,000. The only American-made equivalent is a hospital-grade product built to keep germs off surfaces in an operating room, and it is priced like one: $546,000. More than eight times the cost, to open and close the same doors.
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