• housing vouchers and production programs: an assessment of the GAO cost study
  • The GAO cost study (GAO-01-901R) is available via the Government Accounting Office Web site. Click here to leave the MHC site and go to the GAO site.

• affordable housing and growth management and sprawl: equity for some versus affordability for others
  
  • executive summary
  • preface

Michael Collins

• pursuing the american dream: homeownership and the role of federal housing policy

• policy option papers:
  • consider regulatory changes to further educate and protect consumers in mortgage transactions, as well as assure loans are made at fair and reasonable credit costs.
  • consider regulatory changes to prevent predatory lending
  • create a better system of accessing credit at a reasonable cost for borrowers in rural areas, including expansion of RHS direct and guaranteed programs
  • create a better system of accessing credit at a reasonable cost for the purchase, resale, and rehabilitation of manufactured housing
  • enact a homeownership tax credit similar to the LIHTC that will stimulate production of units for homeownership
  • enact a tax credit, similar to LIHTC, for second-mortgage lenders to finance downpayment and closing costs with low-interest loans for eligible borrowers
  • enact incentives for employers to invest in activities that promote housing production and affordability for their employees
  • facilitate capital and credit enhancements for home improvement lending

The Compass Group

• general papers:
  • defining a “preservation transaction”
  • financial modeling summary
  • outline of key issues: industry data warehouse
  • subsidized rental housing: potential policy issues
  • sustainable underwriting principles

• background papers:
  • barriers to acquisition of at-risk properties by preserving entities
  • innovative state and local programs
  • outcome-based compliance reforms
  • potential HOME / CDBG reforms to facilitate their use with LIHTC
  • pre-LIHTC affordable housing
  • preservation of existing affordable housing
  • preservation tax incentive
  • tax policy reversals affecting investors in affordable rental housing

• concept papers:
  • funding for production and preservation of subsidized rental housing
  • long-term sustainability and affordability
  • mixed-income rental housing
  • mixed-income rental housing production program using tax-exempt bond financing

• issue paper:
  • removing financing barriers for homes with land leases from community land trusts?

• policy option papers:
  • issue: adopt sustainability and affordability principles?
  • issue: further reform public housing?
  • issue: how to fund production and preservation of subsidized rental housing?
  • issue: how to preserve existing affordable housing?
  • issue: how to promote mixed-income housing?
  • issue: production of units for extremely-low-income households (with incomes below 30% of area median)
  • issue: provide tax incentives for preservation?
  • issue: reduce barriers to acquisition of at-risk properties by preserving entities?
  • issue: working family mixed-income rental housing production program using tax-exempt bond financing

• background on public housing development

• smart growth and housing affordability

• policy option papers:
  • applying work requirements to housing programs
  • reducing anti-marriage incentives in housing programs

Shaun Donovan

• market rate multifamily rental housing

• policy option papers:
  • construction and development financing
  • small multifamily properties

Anthony Downs

• attacking the housing affordability problem

• the housing transportation connection: building better communities through better housing and transportation

• impact of federal budget process on section 8 renewals and the preservation of affordable housing

• housing affordability in the United States: trends, interpretations, and outlook

Kenneth G. Lore

• the revitalization of FHA

George S. Masnick

• a demographer’s perspective on housing affordability in the United States at the end of the 20th century

John McEvoy

• the federal housing delivery system | appendices

National Academy of Public Administration

• the future shape of HUD: what difference could MHC’s proposals make?

National Association of Home Builders

• housing’s impact on the economy

Wendell E. Primus

• welfare reform and housing policy

• the neglect of america’s housing: consequences and policy responses

Recapitalization Advisors, Inc.

• the low income housing tax credit: effectiveness and efficiency: a presentation of the issues
  • MHC tax policy task force: proposed recommendations

• U.S. DOT programs and the MPO planning process

Sarah Rosen Wartell

• single-family risksharing: an evaluation of its potential as a tool for FHA

• public housing reform proposal

• regulatory barriers to housing development in the United States

• integration of housing assistance with workforce development and regionalism

• context paper for integrated planning and development

Shannon Van Zandt

• memorandum: public housing task force meeting

• background paper presented for consideration to the millennial housing commission: native american housing needs & proposed recommendations

• background paper presented for consideration to the millennial housing commission: rural housing needs & proposed recommendations