Breakthroughs Newsletter Covers Tax Relief, Rehab Codes, & Aesthetic Zoning

The fourth issue of Breakthroughs - the Regulatory
Barriers Clearinghouse newsletter - is now available on
the Web at
https://archives.huduser.gov/rbc/archives/strategy_archive.html
Like the RBC site itself, our latest newsletter is packed
with information you can use in your efforts to alleviate
state and local regulatory barriers to affordable
housing.

In Breakthroughs Volume 1 Number 4, we look at...

o How a number of communities are providing tax relief to
both low- and moderate-income homeowners and renters;

o How New Jersey's Rehabilitation Sub-Code is encouraging
redevelopment of older buildings in the state; and  

o How Jacksonville, Florida revised its zoning ordinance
to permit manufactured housing in single-family zoned
districts if the units comply with certain aesthetic
conditions.

Please take a few minutes to view or download the new
issue of Breakthroughs at:
archives.huduser.gov/rbc/archives/strategy_archive.html
On our site, you'll also find back issues, a new press
release on a department-wide initiative at HUD aimed at
reducing regulatory barriers to affordable housing, and
of course, RBC's ten categories of searchable content
featuring over 1,600 records of barriers identified and
solutions proposed so far. If you want to make an
affordable difference in your community, this is the
place to be.

On behalf of U.S. HUD and the Office of Policy
Development & Research, we hope you find this information
useful and of interest, and that you'll consider passing
this message along to interested colleagues and others in
your acquaintance who are concerned with improving access
to affordable housing in America.
 
We'd also like to invite you to send in the problems
you've encountered and/or the solutions you've found for
inclusion in our growing database (thanks to our previous
submittors and a great deal of RBC staff research, there
are some truly viable & elegant solutions to be found).
The very best of those we receive in the next two months
will find their way into the next issue of Breakthroughs.
Send them to rbcsubmit@huduser.gov and be a part of the
regulatory solution to affordable housing.