Green/Sustainable Housing

The International City/County Management Association has issued a new publication, Putting Smart Growth to Work in Rural Communities .

NH&RA is please to offer TEN digital audio recordings of select panel sessions from its recent 2010 Summer Institute & Pre-Conference Symposium on New Markets Tax Credits!

The Senate Banking Committee has approved the Livable Communities Act (S. 1619), a bill proposed by Chairman Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) to improve the coordination between federal housing, community development, transportation, energy, and environmental policies.

The Georgia Department of Community Affairs has released the updated Economic Development Financing Packet. The resource contains information about various federal, state, and local financing programs, governed by various state departments and other public entities, that directly or indirectly benefit Georgia businesses.

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.

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.

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.

Last week, Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Tim Johnson (D-SD) introduced new legislation, the Securing America’s Future with Energy and Sustainable Technologies (SAFEST) Act.

Congressman Jared Polis (D-CO) recently wrote a letter to Acting Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Edward DeMarco demand insisting that he work cooperatively with stakeholders and communities toward resolving issues under the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) bond programs.

The Treasury Department recently published additional guidance on the Section 1603 renewable energy tax credit cash grant program, specifically with regards to the beginning of construction for projects utilizing 1603 funds.