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ICAST’s IRA & BIL Instant Benefit Estimate Calculator is now available on NH&RA’s website under the Resources section.

The Rayette Building in the Lowertown section of St. Paul, Minnesota has been a lot of things over the last 100 years, starting as a hat and clothing wholesaler in 1911. It became the Raymond Rayette Laboratories in 1936, where scientists developed products like Aqua Net, once the most popular hairspray in the U.S. In the mid-1990s, the building changed again into a giant, seven-story parking garage, with room for 300 cars.

During Bernie Husser’s two-year term as chair of the National Housing & Rehabilitation Association (NH&RA), which ends at the annual meeting in March, the organization has launched its Preservation Through Energy Efficiency initiative, fought for affordable housing in Congress and watched over the launch of a new federal program to recapitalize public housing. Husser has been in the business of affordable housing for more than two decades.

This December, work finished on a renovation that’s likely to cut the total energy used at a home for very low-income seniors by more than a third.

On February 13, 2014, developers broke ground on Helm Place, a bold and much anticipated plan to bring new housing to a blighted historic district in Jackson, Miss.