2002 Legislative Priorities released. (What's New on the Marketplace).The Joint Legislative Program of the National Apartment Association (NAA NAA Nomina Anatomica Avium. ) and National Multi Housing Council (NMHC NMHC National Multi Housing Council NMHC Non-Methane Hydrocarbons NMHC National Modular Housing Council ) released their annual public policy on March 11, 2002, during NAA's Capitol Capitol, seat of the U.S. Congress Capitol, seat of the U.S. government at Washington, D.C. It is the city's dominating monument, built on an elevated site that was chosen by George Washington in consultation with Major Pierre L'Enfant. Conference. Top on the associations' 2002 agenda are barriers to apartments, insurance and terrorism coverage, mold, telecommunications policy, tax issues and energy policy. In addition to their general advocacy on behalf of apartments, NAA/NMHC have also charted an extensive policy agenda in 2002, with insurance and terrorism coverage, mold, telecommunications policy, tax issues and energy policy topping the agenda. Other critical issues targeted by NAA/NMHC in 2002 include: * smart growth * bankruptcy reform * HUD Hud (h  d), a pre-Qur'anic prophet of Islam. Hud unsuccessfully exhorted his South Arabian people, the Ad, to worship the One God. fair housing enforcement practices
* consumer privacy * real estate brokerage and property management activities by banks * premises liability reform * rent control and other barriers to affordable housing and land use FHA See Federal Housing Administration. FHA See Federal Housing Administration (FHA). multifamily housing * new rental housing production funding * tax issues, including environmental clean up expenses, like-kind exchanges, tax reform and the federal estate tax * lead-based paint regulations * regulatory reform Regulatory Reform concerns improvements to the quality of government regulation. At the international level, the "OECD Regulatory Reform Programme is aimed at helping governments improve regulatory quality -- that is, reforming regulations that raise unnecessary obstacles to * building codes A copy of the 2002 NAA/NMHC Legislative and Regulatory Priorities is available at www.naahq.org/government/2002PrioritiesBooklet.pdf |
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