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Mortgage Interest Deduction Resources
By Raquel Harati, NLIHC Research Analyst A report by the Urban Institute titled, “How Does the Federal Government Support Housing?”, demonstrates how federal government support to higher-income homeowners through tax breaks like the mortgage interest deduction (MID), the capital gains…
The U.S. Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) published a report, “Present Law and Background Relating to Tax Incentives for Residential Real Estate,” on July 13. The release of the report, which summarizes federal tax incentives for residential housing, coincided with the U.S. House of…
Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN), Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and NLIHC hosted a congressional briefing on October 17 to discuss the benefits of reforming the mortgage interest deduction (MID) through tax reform and why Congress should reinvest savings generated from MID reform into housing…
The J. Ronald Terwilliger Foundation for Housing America’s Families has published a report, “How Federal Dollars are Spent: The Case for New Priorities,” calling for reforms to the mortgage interest deduction (MID) and investing in housing assistance for lower income renter households.
The report…