General News

The Strategic Growth Council (SGC) just released the Round 4 Draft Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) Program Guidelines. The draft guidelines are open for public comment and will close at 5:00 pm on September 23, 2018. Associated documents that are also posted include the Narrative Scoring Rubric and Community Engagement Tracker. The draft revised AHSC […]

A lawsuit by not for profit fair housing advocacy groups against HUD to reinstate an assessment tool for local governments to measure progress in meeting Fair Housing requirements was dismissed in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia on Friday, August 17, at the request of cabinet department.

A recent article on the Forbes.com highlights efforts by Health Insurers including Anthem, Aetna, Humana, Medicare, Medicaid and UnitedHealthcare investing is housing as a “social determinant of health” in an effort to increase profits and reduce costs.

Schuetz argues that current legislative proposals are only partial fixes and gives four recommendations for federal, state, and local governments to address the housing affordability crisis.

Applicants requested an aggregate total of $14.8 billion in NMTC allocation authority, over four times the $3.5 billion in authority available for the 2018 round.

Later this month, The Urban Institute, the MacArthur Foundation, and other philanthropic organizations are hosting a half-day workshop to discuss and debate what Chicago and Cook County should do to optimally utilize the new federal Opportunity Zones incentives established by the Tax Reform Act. The official announcement can be found here.

On July 10, the Bipartisan Policy Center hosted a panel on the evidence-based evaluation of tax expenditure programs, such as LIHTC and Investment Tax Credits. It coincided with the release of a new report entitled “Evaluating Tax Expenditures: Introducing Oversight Into Spending Through the Tax Code”. The event discussed the necessity of evaluating tax expenditures […]

Robinson+Cole’s Jerome Garciano has released a July 2018 update of his Green Tax Incentive Compendium, including the recent extensions of the investment tax credit for certain technologies, the 45L tax credit and the 179D tax deduction.

Of 2,663 HUD and Mitchell-Lama (a New York state program) subsidized properties in 2017, 11% are eligible to expire out of affordability by 2023. That number jumps to nearly 48% over the next 15 years.

On June 19, the Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) held an address and panel discussion at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. to formally present its 30th annual State of the Nation’s Housing report. Since 1988, the report has offered invaluable, applicable information on the housing industry for policymakers, investors, and […]

Last Friday morning, the National Housing Conference (NHC) held its Annual Policy Symposium in Washington D.C. to a welcoming audience of investors, researchers, and bureaucrats. The half-day event included an address by Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan on the city’s development, a panel of experts further discussing Detroit, and a panel discussing the growing impact and role of private-public partnerships in community development.

Registration is complimentary but spaces are limited.