Thanks to the hard work of many affordable housing advocates, the House subcommittee handling HUD appropriations proposed adding $1.5 billion for FY2021. The increased allocations would allow nearly every [...]

The House infrastructure bill includes many of the Affordable Housing Tax Credit Improvement Act (AHCIA) provisions we have been working on for years as well as several more [...]

CPD FY2020 CARES Act Formula Grants: California

CARES Act Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF) Payments to CA State & Local Governments  

The COVID-19 pandemic reveals how critical safe, stable, and affordable homes are to our communities’ ability to get and stay healthy. While every Californian has had their life [...]

April 8th letter from California Governor Gavin Newsom to the Honorable Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, requesting bold federal action to address the COVID-19 emergency in five [...]

Dear Colleagues: Below are my highlights from the FY 2018 federal spending bill that was finalized yesterday by Congressional leaders. I am pleased to report that thanks to [...]

Now that the U.S. Senate has approved its own tax reform bill replete with hastily scribbled hand-written notes, which you can read here, Congress has entered the final [...]

Senate Finance Committee Chair Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) released his modifications to the tax reform bill last night having just added a provision that repeals the Obamacare individual mandate [...]

I am writing you from Washington, D.C. to alert you that there is a time-sensitive effort today being led by Rep. Randy Hultgren (R-IL-14th), who is co-chair of [...]

My October 27th blog described the damage that will be done to California if the Republican House tax reform proposal eliminates tax exempt private activity bonds (PABs) including [...]

Saving the Low Income Housing Tax Credit: Now is the Time More than 325,000 lower income California households are currently living in apartments produced and made affordable through [...]