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Two hugely important Native American housing bills are on their way to the House of Representatives after passing the Senate with overwhelming bipartisan support. One bill, to boost mortgages on trust land by speeding up the title process, passed unanimously. The other, to reauthorize a landmark bill languishing in Congress for a decade, passed by 86-11 as an amendment tucked into a massive defense spending bill.
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WASHINGTON – A bipartisan bill aimed at accelerating the review and processing of mortgages on tribal lands has cleared the Senate by unanimous consent.
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How do you get projects with hundreds of housing units built in Indian Country when you get only a skimpy amount of federal housing assistance each year?
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This special Tribal Business News reporting project examines the challenges tribes and their citizens face when it comes to housing — as well as what’s needed to address those challenges in a meaningful and sustainable way. Spoiler alert: It’s not just money.
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David Bland is a visionary when it comes to using the federal Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program to build affordable housing in Indian Country.
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How much money would it take to solve the Native American housing crisis?
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With this special reporting project, Tribal Business News is examining the challenges tribes and their citizens face when it comes to housing — as well as what’s needed to address those challenges in a meaningful and sustainable way. Spoiler alert: It’s not just money.
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Louie Sheridan, Jr. began working in Indian Housing in 1996, the same year as the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act became law.
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Homeownership is about a 50/50 proposition for Native Americans. More specifically, about half —an estimated 57% — of Native people own their own homes. That's around 15 percentage points lower than white households. The huge disparity is due to a number of widely known challenges, from complex land laws to lack of access to capital.
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- By Chez Oxendine
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WASHINGTON—Discussion during a Senate subcommittee hearing yesterday was largely friendly, if insistent, conversation about issues facing housing in Indian Country — including safety, grant money spent on remediation instead of new housing development, and underfunded technical assistance programs bound by yards of red tape.