affordable housing Archive
Expanding Affordable Housing: Tax Policy’s Role
March 7, 2023
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Note: The following is the testimony of Garrett Watson, Senior Policy Analyst and Modeling Manager at the Tax Foundation, prepared for U.S. Senate Committee on Finance hearing on March 7, 2023, titled, “Tax Policy’s Role in Increasing Affordable Housing Supply for Working Families.” Reforming the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit and Improving Cost Recovery
Made in America? US Manufacturing Tax & Industrial Policy
March 17, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Key Findings Policymakers on both the left and right have brought industrial policy back into focus after slow growth over the past few decades and growing concern over the state of America’s manufacturing sector. In the context of the tax code, industrial policy usually comes in the form of non-neutral subsidies for specific
Wyden Tax Proposals & Reconciliation
September 7, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Congressional lawmakers are putting together a reconciliation bill to enact much of President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda. Many lawmakers, however, want to make their own mark on the legislation. Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-OR) has released his own proposals on a variety of tax issues that differ in some important
Wyden’s DASH Act Isn’t the Best Way to Solve the Housing Crisis
August 30, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares To tackle problems of homelessness and housing costs, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has released a major tax proposal, the Decent Affordable Safe Housing (DASH) For All Act. Several of Wyden’s proposals are also components of the Biden administration’s infrastructure agenda, with a large focus on tax credits designed to either incentivize new housing
