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Housing Affordability Affects Housing Choice

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NAHB Housing Policy Briefing | NAHB encourages policymakers to focus on incentives for local governments to embrace new housing developments, including affordable low-income and workforce housing. ABOUT NAHB: The National Association of Home Builders is a Washington, D.C.-based National Association of Home Builders.

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How Excessive Design Standards Hurt Home Affordability

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Design regulations are supposed to ensure the health, safety and welfare of residents, but superficial and excessive rules that price lower- and moderate-income families out of the market should not be prioritized over the need to address the housing affordability problem. NAHB Housing Policy Briefing.

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Why Builders Wait to See Lower Lumber Prices

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NAHB Policy Brief | Lumber prices have moderated, but lower costs haven't worked their way to builders; New home prices too expensive for lower-income households. New-Home Prices Squeeze Out Lower-Income Households . ABOUT NAHB: The National Association of Home Builders is a Washington, D.C.-based Wed, 08/04/2021 - 06:00.

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NAHB and Trump Working to Reopen the Country

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Establish a permanent minimum 4% credit floor for the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit. ABOUT NAHB: The National Association of Home Builders is a Washington, D.C.-based Create a secondary market for acquisition, development and construction loans. Increase funding for workforce development programs.

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State by State Incentives Guide

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CAPCO financing, an alternative to conventional bank financing, can accommodate a slightly higher risk profile and provide a more flexible structure for growing businesses. Terms for both are normally 10-20 years and can finance up to 100% of the project costs. ALABAMA - updated for 2014. They are: The Renewal Program.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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INCOME TAX CAPITAL CREDIT: Currently codified as Article 7, Chapter 18, Title 40, Code of Alabama 1975. It is a credit of five percent of the capital costs of a qualifying project, to be applied to the Alabama income tax liability or financial institution excise tax generated by the project income, each year for 20 years.

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Feature Story: 2016 Economic Development Awards

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Pennsylvania’s decision to consolidate hundreds of bridge projects into a single procurement financed by a bond fund managed by a new Public-Private Partnership (P3) should serve as a model for the rest of the country. The $722-million project is the largest private-activity bond financing of a public-private partnership in the U.S.

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