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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 Idaho Housing and Finance Association (IHFA) will hold a public hearing in its main floor conference at 565 W. Myrtle, Boise, ID. on Thursday, Feb. 12 beginning at 9:30 am MT to discuss proposed amendments to its Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Qualified Allocation Plan (QAP).

2019 Competitive Applications for the Alabama Housing Finance Authority are due on Feb. 13 by 5 pm CST. Application Log entries are due on Feb. 11 by 5 pm CST. Current Year Plans, Application Forms Package and Instructions are available here.

MassINC, the Massachusetts Smart Growth Alliance, and LOCUS are hosting a forum on Feb. 27, 2019 focused on stimulating transformative investment in Gateway Cities with the state’s Housing Development Incentive Program (HDIP) and federal Opportunity Zone Funds. The free event will run from 1-2:30 pm ET in the Massachusetts State House – Room 428 (24 […]

Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS) will hold a Housing Stability Council meeting will be on Friday, Feb. 1, 2019 from 9 am – 1 pm PT. Attendees can participate in person at OHCS (725 Summer St. NE, Salem, OR) in conference room 124 A/B or via phone: 1-877-273-4202; Participant Code: 4978330. The meeting materials […]

The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) released the Final Housing for a Healthy California (HHC) Program Guidelines. The Guidelines incorporate feedback from participants through public comment letters, and additional conversations and research during the public outreach period.

Enterprise Community Partners will put $250 million to work over five years to promote health as a top priority in the development and preservation of affordable homes and to elevate homes as an essential tool for improving resident and community health through its new Health Begins with Home initiative.

California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) announced that the state is taking first-of-its-kind legal action the City of Huntington Beach for willfully refusing to comply with state housing law, even after extensive attempts to offer partnership and support from the California Department of Housing and Community Development. 

The Opportunity Starts at Home campaign released a national policy agenda, “Within Reach.” The campaign makes the case that stronger federal action to ensure the most vulnerable low-income households have safe, decent, affordable homes is long-overdue. Over the past year, national organizations from the housing, education, health, civil rights, anti-hunger, anti-poverty and faith-based sectors have joined […]

Joseph Otting, acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), told employees that the administration would not wait on Congress to overhaul the nation’s housing finance system. According to remarks obtained by POLITICO at a Jan. 17 FHFA staff meeting Otting said, in the next two to four weeks you’re going to be able […]

Love for Opportunity Zones will be in the air this Valentine’s Day at the IRS hearing on its proposed Opportunity Zones regulations. The hearing, which was originally scheduled for Jan. 10 and postponed because of the government shutdown, will be at 10 am ET on Feb. 14 in the IRS Building Auditorium in Washington, DC. To be placed on the building access list to attend the hearing, contact Regina Johnson at (202) 317-6901.

Seven Senators and nine members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in which they praise and raise concerns about Treasury’s proposed regulations. The signatories urge Sec. Mnuchin to address remaining questions on investments in operating businesses.

H.J. Res 28 was passed and signed into law on Friday, Jan. 25, ending the 35-day partial government shutdown. With funding secured through Feb. 15, lawmakers in the House and Senate have agreed to go to conference to negotiate a Department of Homeland Security funding bill. Funding for the rest of the government will likely […]