Governor
Approves New State QAP (February
2006)
Budget
Testimony 2006 (Februrary 2006)
Budget
proposes to cut rural rental housing (Februrary
2006)
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Governor Approves New State QAP
On January 23, 2006 Governor George Pataki approved the state's new Qualified
Allocation Plan (QAP) for its Low Income Housing Credit Program.
This new Plan was effective with the Governor's approval and will be in
effect for all applications submitted under the 2006 Unified Funding round.
The new QAP includes changes to application rating including some new rating
categories, changes in fees and definitions and changes to
administrative procedures including the process for projects financed
with tax-exempt bonds. The new QAP is available for review on our website
:
www.dhcr.state.ny.us
Budget Testimony
For your copy of the 2006 Budget testimony given by Blair Sebastian, Executive
Director of the NYS Rural Housing Coalition, Inc. click here.
The Housing Assistance Council's preliminary analysis of the
Administration's budget, released today, is available on HAC's website
at
http://www.ruralhome.org.
USDA's 2007 budget is generally
consistent with those of the last few
years, but proposes more
drastic changes for rental housing. The budget
for HUD would eliminate
the Rural Housing and Economic Development program
and cut funding for the
Community Development Block Grant program, although
it does not renew last year's
proposal to move CDBG to the Commerce
Department. It would
increase funding for Section 8 tenant-based and
project-based vouchers.
Leslie Strauss
Communications Director,
Housing Assistance Council
202-842-8600 ext. 141
leslie@ruralhome.org
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