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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.

The Federal Housing Administration’s (FHA) Mortgagee Review Board has published a public notice that announces several administrative actions against FHA-approved lenders who failed to meet its requirements.

On July 21, President Obama signed the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 (H.R. 4173) into law, the most significant financial reform legislation since the Depression.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Office of Policy Development and Research has made available an interactive, historical timeline of key events, programs and legislation that has helped shape the nation’s housing policy since the 1930s.

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund has schedueld a series of conference calls regarding CDFI Certification to allow potential certification applicants to receive guidance and ask questions about becoming a certified CDFI.