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Breakthroughs Looks at Infill Housing, State Individual Housing Accounts, and Housing for the Disabled

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Your latest issue of Breakthroughs is now available at
archives.huduser.gov/rbc/archives/newsletter/vol2iss6.html
In our last issue of 2003 (and first of 2004 for those
returning from a long Winter holiday), you'll find
articles about how the innovators in planning and
community development are coming up with creative
strategies for overcoming the barriers to affordable
housing.


In this issue, we look at ...

o An environmental group in San Francisco that works with
developers to create good infill housing;

o Tennessee's streamlined process for creating housing
opportunities for citizens with mental disabilities; and

o How Hawaii's program to provide tax exempt savings
accounts for first-time homebuyers has not been as
successful as hoped.


We hope you'll enjoy this issue of Breakthroughs, and
will consider sending us any similar experiences you may
have encountered. If you've got a story to tell, please
give us a call at 1-800-245-2691 / option 4, or send an
email to rbcsubmit@huduser.gov.

On our site, you'll also find links to HUD's new
announcement
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/taxonomy/term/2286 on how
the Department intends to encourage regulatory reform at
the federal, state and local levels. So here's to the
best ideas we've yet to encounter in 2004 - let's make
this the year that affordable becomes possible.