With the one-year anniversary approaching for the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) passage, deadlines are approaching for grant applications, spending plans, and tax credits that can be used to preserve housing, reduce energy costs, and increase climate resilience. Enterprise hosted a recent webinar that discussed IRA updates, featuring its own experts as well as representatives from HUD and the National Associate of State Energy Officials (NASEO).
HUD Secretary Marcia L. Fudge sat down with Enterprise's Jacqueline Waggoner to discuss ways in which she and others in the Biden administration are working to improve lives by increasing the affordable housing supply.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development recently announced the first round of funding allocations for the department’s new Rapid Unsheltered Survivor Housing program.
Congressional leaders overnight released text of a $1.7 trillion spending package to keep the government funded through next September. Lawmakers failed, however, to make permanent critical disaster rebuilding aid.
A bipartisan group of Senators recently reintroduced the Reforming Disaster Recovery Act, a bill that would permanently authorize the federal government’s long-term disaster recovery program.
Six months after the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, efforts are underway to ensure that affordable multifamily housing will have pathways to benefit from this historic legislation. Enterprise Community Partners and others in affordable housing continue to work to shape the programs authorized by the IRA through public comment submissions, and through tracking updates and new guidance as it becomes available.
Enterprise Community Partners (Enterprise) today released a policy brief providing recommendations to policymakers at every level of government to prepare communities for an influx of migrants as climate change forces millions of Americans in disaster-prone areas to leave their homes.