Green/Sustainable Housing

The Treasury Department’s 2012″“2013 Priority Guidance Plan contains 317 projects that are priorities for allocation of the resources of its offices during the twelve-month period from July 2012 through June 2013 (the plan year). Several items pertain to the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, New Markets Tax Credit and various energy credits.

The California Housing Partnership Corporation recently released a report entitled “Building and Preserving Affordable Homes near Transit: Affordable TOD as a Greenhouse Gas Reduction and Equity Strategy,” which assesses the existing research on the role of preservation and development of affordable housing in transit-oriented development (TOD) areas as a greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction strategy.

Registration is now open for HUD’s Green Academy, a pilot initiative that will offer green building training to HUD grantees and other affordable housing organizations.

NH&RA was pleased to welcome over 200 industry professionals to our 2012 Fall Developers Forum. All conference materials including Power Point presentations, reports, memos and articles from the conference are available for download.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently revolved a previous Private Letter Ruling (PLR) 201214007 which indicated that power purchase agreements (PPAs) are excluded from the purchase price allocation on wind transactions.

We invite you to take a short break from your year end closings and join more than 150 of the leading developers and affordable housing professionals from around the country at our 2012 Fall Developers Forum at the Langham Hotel. The Developers Forum is the last NH&RA conference of the year!

On November 13 Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick outlined a bold new plan to produce 10,000 new multifamily housing units a year through 2020.

American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) recently released a report entitled Renewable Energy in the 50 States which provides an executive summary on the status of renewable energy implementation at the state-level.

The National Park Service (NPS) and Department of Energy (DOE) have released separate guidance on installing solar panels at historic properties in a way that meets the standards of the Department of Interior.

The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) will meet Thursday, November 15, 2012. The meeting will be held in the Room SR325 at the Russell Senate Office Building at Constitution and Delaware Avenues NE., Washington, DC at 8:30 a.m.

California Governor Jerry Brown recently signed into law a bill, AB 1124, which enables renters and landlords to be eligible for repair and replacement of furnaces and hot water heaters under California utilities’ energy efficiency programs.

The National Housing & Rehabilitation Association (NH&RA) has announced five winners and ten finalists across ten competitive categories for this year’s J. Timothy Anderson Awards for Excellence in Historic Rehabilitation. The “Timmy Awards” will be presented at an awards luncheon and ceremony on Tuesday, October 30 at the Langham Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, held in conjunction with the association’s Annual Fall Developers Forum. The winners and finalists represent fourteen different communities in ten states””Connecticut, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia””as well as the District of Columbia.