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R Street Apartments:
Located in one of D.C’s trendiest neighborhoods and a short walk from transit, R Street Apartments could have easily been converted to high price rentals or condos. Instead, residents banded together and saved their homes.




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25 January 2010
Dept. of Energy Announces New Regulations to Facilitate Weatherizing Subsidized Affordable Housing

The Department of Energy (DOE) today announced new regulations that will help improve the energy efficiency and livability of HUD, Low Income Housing Tax Credit, and USDA assisted apartments by minimizing barriers to the participation of these homes in the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP)
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22 January 2010
HUD NSP2 Grant Will Help NHTCDF and Partners Stabilize Historic DC Neighborhood

HUD recently awarded a grant of $10.6 million to the National Housing Trust Community Development Fund for the purpose of stabilizing the Marshall Heights community, an historic, transit-connected Washington, D.C. neighborhood that has been negatively affected by foreclosures, vacancies, abandonment, and the withdrawal of public and private capital and credit.
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11 January 2010
New Affordable Housing Preservation Tools Announced in MA

Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick recently signed a new "expiring use" law to keep publicly-assisted properties affordable and announced a $150 million loan fund to support affordable housing preservation.
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5 October 2009

New AARP Report Co-Authored by the National Housing Trust and Reconnecting America Recommends Preserving Affordable Housing near Transit

A new AARP report co-authored by the National Housing Trust and Reconnecting America has found that more than 250,000 privately-owned, federally subsidized apartments exist within walking distance to quality transit in 20 metro areas.
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