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The Arkansas Development Finance Authority (ADFA) has adopted emergency rules for projects funded by the Tax Credit Assistance Program (TCAP) and Section 1602 Exchange Program, effective immediately.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has released maps of American Housing Survey (AHS) metropolitan zones through its HUD USER website.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has released a Comprehensive Housing Market Analysis for the Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina market area.

The United State’s Senate has issued a substitute amendment for HR 4213, “American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act of 2010.”Â The Senate is currently scheduled to debate HR 4213 this week. Most of the housing related provisions from the House version remain unchanged, with the exception of a change to the taxation of carried interest provisions. Major features of the amendment include…

National Housing & Rehabilitation Association is pleased to announce that it has released all PowerPoint slide presentations from the 2010 Summer Institute & Pre-Conference Symposium on New Markets Tax Credits.

The Obama Administration this week announced a national conference in Washington, DC on August 17 that will help provide critical public input relating to its ongoing work to develop a comprehensive housing finance reform proposal.

A monthly newsletter covering sustainable community planning and development is available free of charge from Partnership for Sustainable Communities (PSC).

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Sander Levin (D-Mich.) recently released the draft legislative text of the Domestic Manufacturing and Energy Jobs Act of 2010.

Starting this summer, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has opened the Building Performance Partnership (BPP), a program designed to engage owners and managers of LEED-certified buildings and optimize the performance of buildings through data collection and analysis.

Red Stone Partners, a national real estate finance company active in the affordable multifamily housing market, recently established a new $250 million investment fund for the acquisition of fixed rate tax-exempt multifamily housing bonds.

The Montana Community Development Corporation (MCDC) recently announced that David Glaser has been elected the new President of MCDC, replacing Rosalie Sheehy Cates who resigned after serving for over two decades.

Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) and Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Kit Bond (R-Mo.) recently introduced the Thermal Renewable Energy and Efficiency Act of 2010 (H.R. 5805), which would create a renewable thermal energy production tax credit by expanding the existing production tax credit (PTC) and expand the use of tax exempt bonds.