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State legislative reform efforts, web-based permitting, & making room for manufactured housing

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Find the latest Breakthroughs in affordable housing
reform on the Regulatory Barriers Clearinghouse (RBC)
website at
archives.huduser.gov/rbc/archives/newsletter/vol5Iss2.html.

Topics in this issue include...

o How legislators in South Carolina, Illinois,
California, Washington, New Jersey, Arizona, Ohio, and
Massachusetts are working to institute a number of
regulatory reforms;

o How local jurisdictions are using technology to reduce
building permit and inspection processing times; and

o Examples of zoning and development ordinances that
others can use to increase the use of manufactured
housing.

We hope you can use some of these forward-thinking
strategies to reduce barriers in your own community. If
you think others would benefit from this information,
send the story directly to them by clicking on the "Send
this to a Friend" link in the upper-right corner of the
individual newsletter homepage.

If your community has undertaken similar reforms, we'd
like to know about them. Call us at 1-800-245-2691/option
4 or send us an e-mail at rbcsubmit@huduser.gov. Who
knows, we might be highlighting your community's efforts
later this year! View the latest issue of Breakthroughs
at archives.huduser.gov/rbc/archives/newsletter/vol5Iss2.html.

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This Just In:  The deadline for submitting nominations
for the second annual Robert L. Woodson, Jr. awards,
which recognize local communities for their outstanding
leadership in reducing excessive or unnecessary
regulatory barriers, has been extended to March 31, 2006.

For more information on the announcement, visit,
https://archives.hud.gov/news/2005/pr05-170.pdf.
To obtain an application, see
https://archives.hud.gov/news/2005/pr05-170.pdf.

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