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WESTFIELD, N.J. (AP) — When New Jersey voters gathered this week to talk with a state lawmaker about affordable housing and new data centers, there was something else on their mind, too. Where is their congressman, Republican Tom Kean Jr.? "What's the word?" Steve McCabe, an 80-year-old ...
Years later, as Congress prepared to pass a massive tax overhaul package, Frank intended to vote “no,” opposed to the bill's lowering of top tax rates. He changed his mind, however, when he worked out a deal boosting affordable housing tax credits. “I was happy to sacrifice my ideological ...
... the COVID-19 pandemic before her surprise decision not to seek reelection. LIVE RESULTS: Georgia midterm congressional primaries Like other Democrats, Bottoms cites expanding healthcare, affordable housing and better education as among her top issues. Democrats have not won the Georgia governor’s office for 24 years. Lance Bottoms vows ...
... policy, not because of bad landlords.” He characterized the rental rip-off hearings as “show trials” that took a “tribal approach” to the city’s affordable housing crisis. Despite the combative branding — “New Yorkers vs. Bad Landlords,” blares one promotion — the Bronx event mostly resembled a standard constituent service night ...
... that states and local communities use to fund an array of projects intended mostly to help low-income communities through new parks, sewer systems and affordable housing. Lawmakers have also focused on ensuring the administration spends federal dollars as directed by Congress. This year’s spending bills contained what Sen ...
“For many areas, given the severe, pre-existing lack of affordable housing in these areas and the nature of where disasters tend to strike, you see significant increases in homelessness,” he added. On top of that, each community is its own market, and a disaster in one community simultaneously ...
... dozens of job applications, her family left the capital region and moved to the Seattle area. She now works for a nonprofit that focuses on affordable housing. It is meaningful, but she misses the institute, its mission and her team. Liz Callihan, who worked in communications at USIP, has applied ...
... landlords will pay off their Section 515 loans. Unless the government reinvigorates the program or replaces it with something else, much of rural America’s affordable rental housing could gradually disappear as owners convert all Section 515 properties to market-rate housing. Whether rural communities retain affordable housing will depend ...
... regulations that require environmental reviews and inspections. It also lifts a limit on a grant for emergency shelter beds and street homelessness outreach. As many affordable housing developers are leaning on manufactured and modular homes that can be transported to areas that need housing, the legislation also would eliminate the ...
... Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, said in a statement in advance of his trip. “Now we’ve got to keep that momentum going and pass my affordable housing bill, deliver for Iowa’s energy producers, and bring down costs for working families.” Trump’s affordability tour has taken him to Michigan ...
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