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The Hawaii Housing Finance & Development Authority recently released revised administrative rules for both the low-income housing tax credit and rental housing trust fund programs.

Representative Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.) has introduced legislation (HR 4687) to extend the 1602 exchange program to 4 percent credits. Representative Sanchez noted in a floor statement that “I am introducing this bill because our country cannot afford to let this valuable 4 percent tax credit program fall into disuse due to the economy’s downturn at a time when our country is in desperate need of more jobs and more affordable places for low-income families to live.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has announced that he will push jobs legislation that will not include several tax credit extenders included in a draft bill previously circulated by Senators Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Charles Grassley (R-Neb.), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee have released a draft Jobs Bill.

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Agriculture Department Secretary Tom Vilsack recently announced details of the Obama Administration’s new Healthy Food Financing Initiative, which is intended to provide a mix of federal tax incentives and funds to help finance the development of supermarkets and other healthy food options in under-served urban and rural communities.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is requesting comments on a proposed information collection project under which state housing credit agencies will gather data and information regarding the race, ethnicity, family composition, age, income, rental assistance, disability status, and monthly rental payments of households living in federal low-income housing tax credit projects.

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan has announced the selection of Richard Walega as HUD’s new Regional Director for New England, which comprises Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.

A recent report from the U.S. Treasury Department shows that nearly 28,000 jobs have been created as a result of the Section 1602 low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) cash grant exchange program, created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

The United States Senate voted, 70-28, today (Wednesday, 2/24)to pass Senator Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) Jobs Bill. The $85 billion bipartisan jobs proposal was negotiated by the Finance Committee chairman, Max Baucus, D-Mont., and the committee’s top Republican, Charles E. Grassley of Iowa.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced a new affordable housing plan that would inject an additional $1 billion, bringing the total investment to build or preserve 165,000 units of affordable housing up to $8.5 billion.

Cris White has been identified by the Board of Directors as the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority’s (CHFA) finalist for its open Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer position. His official appointment will be made pending the state mandated 14-day notification period and barring any information that would affect his candidacy for the position.

The Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund recently announced that it is soliciting comments from the public concerning the CDFI Fund’s Quarterly New Markets Report (QNMR) for New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) allocatees under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).