California Tax Credit Agency Supports No-Smoking Rules in Affordable Housing

By Jack Nicholl, Board Member, American Lung Association of California

Here is a list of some common terms used by affordable housing advocates.

Income

Affordable Housing: Housing is affordable if the people living there pay no more than 30% of their income toward the rent or mortgage. Affordability depends on income.

Low-income rental housing: housing that requires subsidies for production or for occupants or both to make it affordable to low- and very low-income households.

By SHARON YARBER, Vice President and Senior Commercial Underwriting Counsel, LandAmerica Financial Group, Inc.

An owner of property can place restrictions on the use of the property through the recordation of covenants, conditions and/or restrictions, commonly known as CC&Rs.

Submitted by Jason Lyon of Presentation & Treatment Design

Shelterforce editor Alice Chasan talks to Jonathan F. Fanton, president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, about an ambitious new project aimed at reframing the national conversation about why housing matters.

How does the MacArthur Foundation's recently announced five-year, $25 million research initiative into the effects of housing on America's families and communities differ from the foundation's sustained and significant existing program commitments to housing?