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Manufactured Housing and Infill in California; Seeking Equitable Impact Fees in Florida; Code Reforms that Promote Rehabilitation; and the 2006 Woodson Award Call for Entries

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The latest edition of Breakthroughs is now available on
the Regulatory Barriers Clearinghouse (RBC) website at
https://archives.huduser.gov/rbc/archives/newsletter/vol5Iss1.html. In
this issue, we continue our discussion of code reforms,
how those reforms have spurred rehabilitation, and how
California and Florida are tackling regulatory reform to
encourage affordable development.

Topics in this issue include:

o How a state task force in Florida is looking for
equitable ways to regulate impact fees;

o How the California legislature's reforms have led to
increased use of manufactured housing in urban infill
development; and

o How the International Code Conference's recent building
code for existing structures creates more realistic
requirements for rehabilitation.

Your community may be interested in pursuing similar
strategies, or may even have come up with better ways to
close the housing-income gap. In either case, your
efforts could be the spark that leads to similar reforms
elsewhere. Call us at 1-800-245-2691/option 4 or send us
an email at rbcsubmit@huduser.gov for further assistance,
or to share your success stories for possible inclusion
in our searchable database.

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We would also like to let you know that HUD has announced
the 2006 Woodson award program, which recognizes states
and communities that are making great strides in
affordable housing through regulatory reform. The
deadline for submissions is March 15, 2006; applications
are available at
https://archives.hud.gov/news/2005/pr05-170.pdf
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