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The National Housing Conference aims to ensure safe, decent, and affordable housing for all in America by pursuing these policy priorities:
Advance Federal Housing Policies to Assist Low- and Moderate-Income Families
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- Support and strengthen federal low-income housing programs and funding through budgetary, regulatory, and legislative processes to assist renters and homeowners, with a particular focus on the needs of vulnerable populations, including veterans, the homeless, and many others
- Improve life outcomes for families and individuals by linking housing to health, education, workforce programs, and other services for those in need
- Strengthen the capacity of states and localities to develop comprehensive and effective housing strategies
- Advance innovative housing strategies, such as preservation of affordable rental housing, shared equity homeownership, and efficient financing for small rental properties
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Strengthen the Nation’s Housing Finance System
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- Reform America’s mortgage finance system to use a limited and explicit government role to ensure reliable access to long-term fixed-rate mortgages, finance for multifamily housing nationwide, and support for affordable housing
- Strengthen FHA’s capacity and flexibility to meet the nation’s housing financing needs
- Ensure well-functioning markets for Low-Income Housing Tax Credits, mortgage revenue bonds, and multifamily housing bonds
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Encourage Foreclosure Recovery and Neighborhood Stabilization
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- Expand and sustain proven programs to prevent foreclosures, minimize household disruption, create pathways back to homeownership, and avoid blight
- Create new tools to assist underserved communities affected by disinvestment, vacancies, and blight
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Advocate for Federal Resources for Housing during Tax and Budgetary Reforms
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- Ensure that decisions about broad federal tax policy take into account the full impact on housing, including the people and communities it serves
- Highlight the essential federal role in housing assistance and encourage policymakers to protect essential affordable housing programs
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Improve the Coordination of Housing, Transportation, and Energy Policy
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- Create incentives for states and localities to preserve and expand the availability of housing that is affordable over the long term to low- and moderate-income families near public transit and job and retail centers
- Create incentives for individuals and multifamily property owners to improve the energy-efficiency of existing and new residential dwellings
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**Current as of February 28, 2013. Please note that the above NHC policy and advocacy priorities are not ranked.**
Images: House in foreclosure via claylee.thecenturytreereader.com, TOD via www.soundtransit.org, family outside house via www.workingfamiliesparty.org, house under construction via t2.gstatic.com, affordable housing development via www.projo.com