Tuesday morning mix

Afraid today's Federal Register isn't up yet as of this writing -- though it could appear any minute, so when you read this you might as well check the FR browse-by-date page to see if the Oct. 4 link has appeared. [UPDATE: Today's FR is up now, but there's nothing much exciting in it for housing folks. Just a handful of new disaster area definitions in the FEMA and SBA sections.] While we're waiting, some bits and pieces:

- Via NH&RA, we have another disaster housing tax bill introduced in Congress last week. This one is HR 3715, the "Affordable Housing Preservation Tax Relief Act of 2005," proposed by Reps. Ramstad and Cardin, to provide an exclusion of gain from sale of affordable housing attributable to depreciation.
- A new 580-unit "trailer park community" was to open for hurricane victims in Louisiana yesterday.
- Via BizNewOrleans, a link to the City of New Orleans situation report, apparently (?) to be updated at this location, but better check the main city site for reports there.
- Linked from the New Orleans city site, a pretty amazing New Orleans flood map: enter an address and find an estimate of how deep the water got.
- FEMA posted a summary yesterday of its Rita and Katrina responses to date.