Friday mix, and a note for Minnesotans
- Novogradac warns that some low-income housing tax credit investors and material advisors may be affected by a new Minnesota rule requiring duplicates of Form 8264, Application for Registration of a Tax Shelter with the Internal Revenue Service, to be filed with the state government by Oct. 17. (Yep, that's Monday.)
- The National Multi Housing Council folks have posted a useful selection of major media articles and editorials on the Katrina evacuee housing situation -- including yesterday's widely noted New York Times story, "$11 Million a Day Spent on Hotels for Storm Relief." They're also still lambasting FEMA's housing response.
- FEMA states it has housed more than 5,000 Mississippi families in travel trailers. Yesterday it posted another overall Katrina/Rita disaster response summary.
- Siskind's Immigration Bulletin has a page on public disaster relief benefits available to immigrants.
- The "Subcontracting Information" section of that new federal "Hurricane Contracting Information Center" could turn out to be worth following, not just as a guide for potential subcontractors, but also for folks interested in following how the prime contractors' assigned tasks become defined.
- An AP poll published yesterday not only says many New Orleanians aren't planning to return, but also fills in the extent of the Gulf Coast hardships: "...Four in 10 went without food for at least a day, and almost as many went without drinking water for a day... Almost half, 44 percent, of those who had been separated from family members said they were still separated from a member or members of their family... A third said their home was either destroyed or damaged so badly they couldn't live in it.... Half of those polled said they were either living outside their own home -- either with a friend or relative in a home or apartment rented after the storm, or in a motel or shelter."
- HUDUSER has a study out on better ways of drafting survey questions to find out what kinds of housing assistance people receive. The study could influence major surveys that affect funding, such as the American Housing Survey. Apart from that, it's an interesting attempt to map the exact dimensions of the confusion under which most people labor with respect to public housing subsidies.
- Offered by way of microcosm: in Bowling Green, KY, local people on the Sec. 8 waiting list are asked to wait a little longer.
- The National Multi Housing Council folks have posted a useful selection of major media articles and editorials on the Katrina evacuee housing situation -- including yesterday's widely noted New York Times story, "$11 Million a Day Spent on Hotels for Storm Relief." They're also still lambasting FEMA's housing response.
- FEMA states it has housed more than 5,000 Mississippi families in travel trailers. Yesterday it posted another overall Katrina/Rita disaster response summary.
- Siskind's Immigration Bulletin has a page on public disaster relief benefits available to immigrants.
- The "Subcontracting Information" section of that new federal "Hurricane Contracting Information Center" could turn out to be worth following, not just as a guide for potential subcontractors, but also for folks interested in following how the prime contractors' assigned tasks become defined.
- An AP poll published yesterday not only says many New Orleanians aren't planning to return, but also fills in the extent of the Gulf Coast hardships: "...Four in 10 went without food for at least a day, and almost as many went without drinking water for a day... Almost half, 44 percent, of those who had been separated from family members said they were still separated from a member or members of their family... A third said their home was either destroyed or damaged so badly they couldn't live in it.... Half of those polled said they were either living outside their own home -- either with a friend or relative in a home or apartment rented after the storm, or in a motel or shelter."
- HUDUSER has a study out on better ways of drafting survey questions to find out what kinds of housing assistance people receive. The study could influence major surveys that affect funding, such as the American Housing Survey. Apart from that, it's an interesting attempt to map the exact dimensions of the confusion under which most people labor with respect to public housing subsidies.
- Offered by way of microcosm: in Bowling Green, KY, local people on the Sec. 8 waiting list are asked to wait a little longer.
posted by Martha Bridegam at 5:06 PM
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