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Through testimony and public comment, Enterprise supports innovative and effective policies to promote healthy communities.

Legislative Fact Sheets
Employer Assisted Housing programs (EAH) allow the private sector to play a direct role in promoting housing affordability for low-and moderate-income working families. (PDF, 30KB)

The High Performance Buildings Act
creates incentives and resources for developing housing that is healthy, energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable. (PDF, 75KB)

The HOPE VI program helps transform dilapidated and severely distressed public housing into mixed-income developments in healthier communities. (PDF, 96KB)

Affordable Housing Preservation Tax Relief Act preserves the federally assisted affordable housing stock. (PDF, 110KB)

National Affordable Housing Trust Fund Act establishes funding for the production of new housing and the preservation or rehabilitation affordable homes. (PDF, 31K)

Affordable Housing Investment Act enhances the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program, the nation’s largest affordable housing production program. (PDF, 560K)

New Markets Tax Credit Extension Act designed to stimulate investment and economic growth in low-income urban neighborhoods and rural communities. (PDF, 82K)

Resources

The Metropolitan Policy Program of the Brookings Institution offers information on urban development, poverty and the future of America's cities.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities offers information on the overall federal budget and fiscal priorities.

Community Development Financial Institutions Fund is a Treasury Department program of assistance to community development lenders.

Department of Housing and Urban Development compiles government housing information.

KnowledgePlex is a compendium of research on housing and community development.

The bipartisan Millennial Housing Commission reported on the extent of America's housing problems and recommended a set of policy solutions.

THOMAS offers information on legislation and regulations and how to contact members of Congress.

Urban Research Monitor is a reference tool published by HUD USER that helps users keep up with the ever-expanding literature on housing and community development.

 

 

 

   
 

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