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The House of Representatives has just taken a series of three votes on legislation which will comprise the housing legislation (H.R. 3221) with which it will go to conference with the Senate.
The Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition has moved offices.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008, in a major victory for the Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition and the Housing Credit industry, the House Ways and Means Committee passed—by an overwhelming, bipartisan majority—the Housing Assistance Tax Act of 2008, H.R. 5720.
On Monday, February 25, 2008, Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) introduced the below-attached Affordable Housing Investment Act of 2008, S. 2666 on behalf of herself and Senators Gordon Smith (R-OR), John Kerry (D-MA), Norm Coleman (R-MN), and Ken Salazar (D-CO). S. 2666 has been commonly referred to as Housing Credit modernization proposals which would allow the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (Housing Credit) program greater flexibility and simplify overly burdensome or out-dated program requirements.
On February 7, 2008, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released the below-attached report on the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program in their publication Community Development Insights.
On Thurdsay, October 18th, 2007, the IRS released Revenue Procedure 200-66 which details the inflation-adjusted Housing Credit caps for 2008.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2895 on October 10, 2007 by a vote of 264 to 148.
On September 25, 2007, the State of Mississippi's Office of Housing published a request for proposals to create workforce housing for the gulf coast region of Mississippi.
On Monday, August 13, 2007, the IRS published the 2007 National Pool Allocations.
On Monday, August 13, 2007, the IRS Released its 2007/2008 Priority Guidance Plan.
