Latest Rural housing Stories
Group Urges IRS to Address Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Recapture, Rural Housing Designation, Other Issues San Francisco, Calif. (PRWEB) May 10, 2013 Members of the LIHTC Working Group on May 1, 2013 sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) requesting that the agency add several affordable housing-related items to its 2013-2014 Guidance Priority List. The letter asks the IRS to clarify policies related to the low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC), rural housing designations...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A new report issued by the National Rural Housing Coalition details how two USDA programs have expanded homeownership opportunities to the nation's poorest rural families - at little expense to the federal government. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130108/PH39145LOGO ) Over the past 60 years, more than 2.1 million low-income rural families have accessed affordable mortgages under the Section 502 Direct Loan program, which...
New Analysis Shows 50 Percent of Maine's Senior Renters and 30 Percent of Senior Homeowners lived in Unaffordable Housing in 2010 BAR HARBOR, Maine, July 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Former U.S. Senator George Mitchell joined the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) Housing Commission and Jack Kemp Foundation to host a public forum in Maine today to discuss the need for improved housing in America's small and rural communities. The meeting also stressed the importance of...
A majority of Pennsylvania's mobile home residents say they are overwhelmingly satisfied with their homes despite problems like construction quality, social stigma and financing associated with them, according to Penn State geographers."The fact that there are problems associated with living in a mobile home was not a surprise to us," said Destiny Aman, graduate student in geography. "But, residents were overwhelmingly satisfied with their housing choice despite the problems,...
