The Fall of the Mall
Photo: Closed and abandoned Lord and Taylor Department store at the Fair Oaks Mall in Fairfax. (MelissaMN –…
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What HUD Does for Virginia
Photo: Andriy Blokhin – stock.adobe.com The FWD #221 • 792 Words HUD Funding Reaches All Parts of Virginia…
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Home Insurance in the Climate Crisis
The FWD #219: Natural disaster have immediate human costs— but there are longer-term costs too.
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Is Your City PRO Housing?
The FWD #215 • 581 Words With the first round of PRO Housing grant awards, HUD sets priorities…
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The Rent is Too Damn Fixed
The FWD #213 • 775 Why did the FBI raid a property management office in Atlanta? Let’s face…
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Homes Work, Jail Cells Don’t
The FWD #212: A recent Supreme Court decision enables local governments to criminalize their unsheltered residents.
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Back to Basics: Low-Income Housing Tax Credits
The FWD #B17: What the heck is a “Lie Tech” project?
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$2 Billion for Green Housing!
The FWD #206: Power Forward Communities will use a massive federal grant to decarbonize homes across the country.
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This Election, It’s Housing All the Way Down
The FWD #205: Recent remarks from the President point toward a hot issue for the 2024 election: housing affordability.
Read MoreReport Update: State Strategies to Increase Energy and Water Efficiency in LIHTC Properties (NHT/EEFA, 2021)
In 2017, Energy Efficiency for All released “State Strategies to Increase Energy and Water Efficiency in Low Income Housing Tax Credit Properties” which identified the most common strategies HFAs were using to advance water and energy efficiency in housing credit properties. This updated report examines the same ten strategies to identify trends in how HFAs are using 9 percent LIHTCs to develop and preserve affordable rental housing that is energy and water efficient, and identify states encouraging higher levels of performance and promising practices.
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