![The Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition [main graphic] A group of developers, syndicators, lenders, nonprofit groups, public agencies, and others concerned with the low-income housing tax credit.](/images/feature_graphics/feature1.jpg?1216325369)
Coalition legal counsel Richard S. Goldstein, Nixon Peabody LLP, has prepared the below-linked side-by-side comparison of both Housing Credit modernization bills (H.R. 5720 and S. 2666).
The Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition joined 14 other industry groups on a letter regarding Section 8 funding.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008, in a major victory for the Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition and the Housing Credit industry, the House Ways and Means Committee passed�by an overwhelming, bipartisan majority�the Housing Assistance Tax Act of 2008, H.R. 5720.
Earlier this afternoon, Tuesday, April 8, 2008, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) introduced the Housing Assistance Tax Act of 2008. This bill represents the House version of the long-awaited modernization proposals previously reported on by the Coalition.
December 19, the Senate passed by unanimous consent an amended version of H.R. 3997, the Defenders of Freedom Tax Relief Act of 2007.
President George W. Bush has signed legislation which includes a change to the Housing Credit student eligibility rules.
On Wednesday, October 24, 2007, the House Ways and Means Committee marked-up H.R. 3920 the Trade Adjustment Assistance Improvement Act and reported it out favorably to the full House.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2895 on October 10, 2007 by a vote of 264 to 148.
On October 10, 2007 the Coalition signed onto an industry letter expressing concern over proposed Section 8 project-based voucher funding levels.
On September 5, 2007, the Coalition signed onto an industry letter submitted to U.S. Department of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson in response the Treasury's report "Treasury Conference on Business Taxation and Global Competitiveness."
