Policy Smarter and Greener Low Income Housing Tax Credit Plans - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Policy

• Smarter and Greener Low Income Housing Tax

Credit Plans

• HOPE VI Improvement and Reauthorization Act of

2007

• IRS-proposed regulations - more accurate tenant

“utility allowances”

• HUD Market to Market - nationwide pilot program

for owners of multifamily properties

• National Affordable Housing Trust Fund

• As of January 25, 2007...

376 mayors, representing more than 80 million Americans, have responded to Seattle Mayor Nickels’ challenge to adopt the goals of the Kyoto Protocol.

• Signatories will strive to meet or beat the Kyoto

Protocol targets in their own communities and urge their state governments, and the federal government, to enact policies and programs to meet greenhouse gas emission reduction target suggested for the United States in the Kyoto Protocol: 7% reduction from 1990 levels by 2012

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