WATCH LIVE: Today the Committee is holding a hearing on America's housing crisis. Tune in as Chair pushes for comprehensive solutions to expand access to affordable housing.
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Between a shortage of affordable homes, skyrocketing rent, and increased numbers of unhoused Americans, it's clear our country is facing a national housing crisis.
Meanwhile, private equity firms are scooping up properties, outbidding everyone by algorithm. Enough is enough.
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WATCH LIVE: Today the Committee is holding a hearing on America's housing crisis. Tune in as Chair @RonWyden pushes for comprehensive solutions to expand access to affordable housing. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1
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"There are existing tools...that provide incentives for builders to create more #affordablehousing. #LIHTC is responsible for generating a majority of all affordable rental housing created in the US." Thank you for supporting the #HousingCredit!
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Who supports the Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act?" asked during a hearing today.
All 5 witnesses supported passing #AHCIA, critical legislation to expand the #HousingCredit that would provide 2M+ #affordablehomes nationwide.
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To fight inflation, Congress should increase the housing supply by immediately passing the bipartisan Neighborhood Homes Investment Act and expanding Low Income Housing Tax Credits. We already know what works. We just have to do it. #affordablehousing #CommunityDevelopment
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The investments in the #BuildBackBetter Act encourage affordable housing development
AND support underserved communities
AND create good jobs.
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President Joe Biden has nominated HUD advisor Alanna McCargo to be president of Ginnie Mae
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A good day for community reinvestment!
Top U.S. banking regulators said they would work jointly to modernize rules governing how banks lend hundreds of billions of dollars annually in lower-income communities. wsj.com/articles/low-i via
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President Biden affirms support for housing in a budget reconciliation bill! Essential! neighborhoodhomesinvestmentact.org rentalhousingaction.org
Remarks by President Biden on the Benefits of the Build Back Better Agenda for Working Families
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Our CEO was quoted in this article discussing the Neighborhood Homes Investment Act (NHIA), which is part of the Biden Administration's #infrastructurebill. NHIA aims to renovate 500,000 single-family homes in low-income neighborhoods.
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Our #NAAHLWebinarSeries on Financing Racial Equity continues! Join us on 3/30 for our next webinar "What's Happening Now to Grow Minority Homeownership" and find out how mortgage lenders and their partners are successfully building minority homeownership: bit.ly/3lvf0p1
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Most of us learned this when we were about 8 years old. Some never learn.
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Attn Statistics Professors:
Small Sample Size Problem Set 
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Such great news! Sending love to you and the family.
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Yesterday was the fifth anniversary of my last cancer treatment. I’m so grateful to my family, friends, my entire medical team, and @JoeBiden for giving me the chance to partner with him in leading the #cancermoonshot to make incredible headway in finding cures to cancers.
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Would love to hear what you find. Neighborhoods need housing plus services.
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I’m looking for case studies of community service facilities (*not* required community space) financed in LIHTC projects.
i.e.- day care center, senior center, open to the public.
Please send my way. Thanks.
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.@BrobertsBuzz column discussing the OCC's #CRA final rule and its impact on affordable housing, community development. novogradac.com/s8j6
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Hear federal banking regulators discuss: Community Development During COVID-19: CRA-qualified Activities cvent.com/d/qnqrzg?lang=.
Estimating COVID-19’s Near-Term Impact on Renters | Terner Center:
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Thank you , , & for highlighting the importance of #LIHTC during today's House Ways & Means hearing, & to Sec. for offering to work w/ Congress on #LIHTC. #affordablehousing Read more:
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. "needs to be a focus on quality and impact, not just quantity. Banks will look for easiest path to hit dollar threshold regardless of community need." #CRA #FCbreakfast
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Top line reactions to proposed changes: “generally bad.” “not the kind of certainty we need.” “a missed opportunity.” #FCbreakfast #CRA
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Helping 10,500 households get affordable housing and numerous neighborhoods revitalize - an outstanding year! #capital4communities #affordablehousing
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Proud of @NEF_LISC team, and grateful for our investor and sponsor partners who all worked to invest $1.45 billion and create almost 10,500 affordable homes in 2019! Ready to do more to increase access to #affordablehousing in the face of growing need across the country. twitter.com/NEF_LISC/statu…
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A once in a generation opportunity to modernize #CRA is being squandered. A new rule proposed by the #Trumpadministration will hurt both #banks and the #communities they serve. It doesn’t have to be that way. In my op-ed in The Hill I explain how.
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Congrats to Denise Scott for being reappointed to Chair of the Reserve Bank. Thank you for your continued dedication to and the communities we serve
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America’s rural communities are hugely diverse and have many lessons to share. One of them is the need for rural-specific community development metrics and leadership. Thank you for giving me the chance to make the case for rural.
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If you don’t increase the Affordable Housing Tax Credit, you’re not going to increase the supply of affordable housing. We need to increase supply.
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Thank you and for championing #affordablehousing. Increasing supply is essential and LIHTC has 30+ years of success.
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Unless we increase the amount of credit available federally, we're not going to be solving the affordable housing problem, no matter how hard our local communities work.
We desperately need to increase supply.
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Ten Senators from both sides of the aisle were just added as co-sponsors of the Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act. It's great to see this momentum for expanding and strengthening #LIHTC.
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This could be a game changer for struggling neighborhoods. #affordablehousing #neighborhoods #communitydevelopment
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Lawmakers have proposed a federal tax credit that would fuel the rehabilitation of deteriorated single-family homes in distressed neighborhoods. bit.ly/2J3ucqF @NAAHLDC @LISC_HQ
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Awesome!
Annie Donovan Joins LISC’s Senior Team | Local Initiatives Support Corporation
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Our 2019 annual conference is shaping up as our best ever. Don't miss it!
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Join us on 6/5/19 for our 2019 Annual Policy & Practice Conference in Washington, DC at @PressClubDC! Register here: bit.ly/2UNSRr8 #affordablehousing #healthyneighborhoods
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Great news from - Guidance issued to permit the use of #PrivateActivityBonds and 4% #LIHTC for #veterans #AffordableHousing and other specified groups - See irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/r
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A legend lost. A life of achievements that endure.
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HERBERT COLLINS Obituary - Gloucester, MA | Boston Globe shar.es/amzSNL via @LegacyObits @CohnReznick @HousingAdvGroup @HousingACTION
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We’re proud to partner with on their recently published Housing & #CommunityDevelopment
Campaign! Check out our President & CEO 's article,
"We Already Know What to Do About the Housing Crisis" bit.ly/2YgJZcz #affordablehousing #LIHTC
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Thank you for your leadership to expand #affordablehousing through the Low Income Housing Tax Credit. Our communities need it now more than ever.
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It’s imperative that the people with the lowest incomes have access to safe and affordable homes. Today I addressed @HomeEverything to talk about the importance of strengthening the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit to give families the ability to live in a stable, affordable home.
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Had many convos on expanding bond recycling #PABs for #AffordableHousing in DC which reminds me of this awesome article from . Read up+support this nerdy, effective idea! In NY it'd be >$200M/yr for housing. furmancenter.org/thestoop/entry
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Proud to have Communications Director Cherri Sinclair share her communications expertise #solutions2019
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Join @JanisLSmith of Janis Smith Executive Communications, Cherri Sinclair of @NAAHLDC, Richard Levick of @LEVICK & Rick White of Wilbon White & Associates to discuss responding to a crisis at #Solutions2019. Last day to save! ow.ly/JZBo30o2587 #OurAmericanHome
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#communitydevelopment is not just good for neighborhoods and their residents, it's essential for America's economic success
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Regional US central bankers turn their focus to Main Street on.ft.com/2EZ7Mqd
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ATTN #AffordableHousing advocates: The Federal Financing Bank & Risk-Sharing Program expired on 12/31/18. This partnership bw and HFAs financed 25k homes nationwide, more than 3K in NYC. We must fight to revive it! #SaveFFB
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