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New Affordable Housing Preservation Tool Empowers Advocates to Save Housing
Have you ever wanted to get a list of all of the federally assisted multifamily properties in your community, but couldn’t find one that was truly comprehensive? Have you ever wished you could see if a property had more than one subsidy attached to it, but didn’t want to have to go to multiple datasets… Continue reading
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Reforming a Deduction to Provide Homes for the Poor
When the National Low Income Housing Coalition first launched our proposal to fund the building and preservation of affordable housing with the savings from modification of the mortgage interest deduction, there were skeptics who told us the mortgage interest tax break was untouchable. With everything we heard about “sacred cows” and “third rails,” it would… Continue reading
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What will you give on Giving Tuesday?
Over $11.2 billion spent. Participation up 26% over one year ago. These, of course, are figures from Black Friday, America’s post-Thanksgiving holiday shopping tradition/abomination (depending on your point of view). Our nation’s retailers make one fifth or more of their sales in the last two months of the year, and our sluggish if improving economy… Continue reading
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News Round-Up: Sacred Cows
In housing news this week, we found encouraging signs that the conventional wisdom about housing policy might be changing, and continued concern that not enough is being done to end poverty and suffering in our nation. CQ covers a new wrinkle in the tax debate raging in Washington: Willingness to let go of sacred cows.… Continue reading
On the Home Front 