Green/Sustainable Housing

The National Housing & Rehabilitation Association and its sub-council, the National Council of Affordable Housing Market Analysts (NCAHMA) each hosted highly successful conferences in October to close NH&RA’s 2010 meeting schedule.

The Treasury Department recently posted two documents relating to renewable energy properties that are not yet placed in service but that plan to apply a cash grant in lieu of tax credits under Section 1603 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has released a proposed rule that submits regulations for governing the Housing Trust Fund, established by HERA in 2008 to provide grants to State governments to increase and preserve the supply of rental housing for extremely low- and very low-income families.

The Florida Housing Finance Corporation has launched a Green Building homepage to provide information and resources on green building to the affordable housing development community.

The White House, together with officials from HUD, Treasury, USDA and congressional staff, recently hosted a one-day conference entitled,

NCAHMA welcomed roughly 100 professionals to Chicago for its 2010 Affordable Housing Underwriting Conference & Annual Meeting on October 5-6. The event was one of NCAHMA’s best turnouts ever! If you missed it, don’t worry! You can download all of the PowerPoint presentations offered during the conference.

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee Ranking Member Olympia J. Snowe (R-ME) recently introduced the Advanced Energy Tax Incentives Act of 2010 (S. 3935).

House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing on September 23 titled “Perspectives on the Livable Communities Act of 2010.”

A jail constructed in 1813 in Salem, Massachusetts converted to market rate apartments; a one-time Inn and girls finishing school in Silver Spring, Maryland re-conceived as affordable residences; and 19th century brewery buildings in both East Baltimore and Milwaukee now filled with corporate offices are all among the finalists for the 2010 J. Timothy Anderson Awards for Excellence in Historic Rehabilitation.

The National Housing & Rehabilitation Association has announced fourteen finalists in six categories for this year’s “Timmy Awards,” which will be presented at an awards luncheon and ceremony on October 19 in Boston, Massachusetts in conjunction with the association’s Annual Fall Developers Forum. The nominees are located in fourteen different communities in ten states from Massachusetts to Kentucky…

Following up on a meeting held earlier in June with representatives from Obama Administration’s Domestic Policy Council, Council For Environmental Quality and Recovery Implementation Office, NH&RA’s Council for Energy Friendly Affordable Housing (CEFAH) has issued a set of recommendations to amend the rules governing the Department of Energy’s Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP).

Yesterday, the House Financial Services Committee advanced two proposed bills to preserve affordable rental housing and revitalize public housing.

The Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) has posted the comments it received regarding its request for public comment related on its Community Investment Impact System (CIIS) Data Collection.