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• Call Today: CONGRESS MUST PASS NHTF Funding Before Recess! September 3, 2010
  // Take Action!     This week, Congress has found money–and legislative vehicles–for three housing items: $1 billion more for the Neighborhood Stabilization Program, $1 billion to make loans to unemployed homeowners so they can make their mortgage payments, and $140 million for yet another extension of the homebuyer tax credit.   But Congress sti […]
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• NHTF Update: House vote possible today September 3, 2010
  Calls needed NOW Take Action!     After several days of delay, the House of Representatives may vote today on H.R. 4213, the American Jobs, Closing Tax Loopholes, and Preventing Outsourcing Act, which includes $1.065 billion for the National Housing Trust Fund.   The bill has generated consternation among some Members of Congress because of its overall cost […]
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• HUD’s PETRA Bill: CRISIS or OPPORTUNITY? September 3, 2010
  The Administration’s Proposal to Preserve and Transform Public and Assisted Housing: The Transforming Rental Assistance Initiative (aka PETRA) will be heard by the House Committee on Financial Services at 10am on Tuesday, May 25. It is billed by proponents as a program to both increase administrative efficiency, increase choice & mobility for tenants, an […]
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• Housing Optimists Are “Not Paying Attention” to the Facts, Says Dean Baker (Y! Finance) September 3, 2010
    Posted May 12, 2010 10:02am EDT by Heesun Wee in Investing, Banking, Housing  [ CLICK HERE to go to ORIGINAL POST] Related: xhb, ^dji, ^gspc, xlf, tlt, tbt Among the crowded ranks of economists and market watchers, Dean Baker stands out. Baker presciently called the housing bubble when he published  “The Run-up in Home Prices: Is It [...] […]
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• New CBPP Report: President’s Budget Would Strengthen Voucher Program September 3, 2010
  The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has issued a new analysis of the Obama Administration’s 2011 budget request for the Housing Choice (Section Voucher program.  The President’s budget requests $17.1 billion to renew vouchers in 2011, an increase of $875 million above the 2010 funding level.  This amount is likely to be just [...] […]
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• Georgetowne Tenants United: RALLY to Demand that Beacon Properties Renew Section 8 Now! September 3, 2010
    Join your neighbors & demonstrate your Solidarity with: Georgetowne Tenants United Rally Saturday February 20, 2010 at 1:00 PM at Ohrenberger Community Center 175 West Boundary Road West Roxbury, MA  02132 Call for more information:  617.267.2949 (Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants) GTU RALLY TO SAVE OUR HOMES! Demand that Beacon Properties Renew Section 8 N […]
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• SAVE OUR HOMES from a wave of expiring HUD mortgages September 3, 2010
  Slipping Away As a wave of HUD mortgages expires in the next four years, an already dwindling supply of affordable units may nosedive with owners making windfall profits — unless the right mix of federal legislation and local organizing can save the day. By Miriam Axel Lute with Michael Kane “Expiring use,” a term used to reference [...] […]
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• From NHI: The Latest Shelterforce Is Now Available! September 3, 2010
  The Latest Shelterforce Is Now Available!   Shelterforce Interviews Shaun Donovan, Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development One Voice for Community Development CLT: A Model for All Markets? Fighting Bank Walkaways and Vulture Investors Also: Boston’s TOD The Right to Rent Twin Cities Collaborations CRA Modification: A Critical Moment […]
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• HUD WEBCAST: Transformation of Rental Assistance September 3, 2010
  Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 1:36 PM Subject: HUD’s FY2011 Budget Briefing on the Transformation of Rental Assistance Over the last 75 years, the federal government has invested billions in the development and maintenance of public and multifamily housing. This housing serves tremendously vulnerable people (extremely low-income families, seniors, […]
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• KnowledgePlex.org EXPERT CHAT September 3, 2010
  KnowledgePlex.org  EXPERT CHAT Introducing the HousingPolicy.org Forum: A New Place to Ask Questions and Share Ideas about Affordable Housing Policy Thursday, February 19 at 1:30 p.m. EST The Center for Housing Policy is proud to introduce the HousingPolicy.org Forum – a new, online tool that will enable affordable housing practitioners and policymakers to q […]
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