The committee will come to order. I want to welcome everybody to todays hearing entitled americas Affordable Housing crisis, challenges and solutions. This is an important issue in this hearing will allow the committee to hear from experienced and welleducated witnesses that can provide more context on Affordable Housing policies and the sections of the tax code with the intent of mitigating this longtime set of problems in our society. As many of you are aware the last time we underwent a National Comprehensive revision of the tax code was in 1986. The passage of the tax reform act, that some Affordable Housing tax incentives were baked into statute with the lowIncome Housing tax credit being chief among them. Since then this important section of the tax code has enjoyed bipartisan support. Still, it is worth examining this particular laws we continue to wrap up our work on tax reform. Throughout todays hearing a one each member to keep in mind some Guiding Principles for tax reform.
The committee will come to order. I want to welcome everybody to todays hearing entitled americas Affordable Housing crisis, challenges and solutions. This is an important issue in this hearing will allow the committee to hear from experienced and welleducated witnesses that can provide more context on Affordable Housing policies and the sections of the tax code with the intent of mitigating this longtime set of problems in our society. As many of you are aware the last time we underwent a National Comprehensive revision of the tax code was in 1986. The passage of the tax reform act, that some Affordable Housing tax incentives were baked into statute with the lowIncome Housing tax credit being chief among them. Since then this important section of the tax code has enjoyed bipartisan support. Still, it is worth examining this particular laws we continue to wrap up our work on tax reform. Throughout todays hearing a one each member to keep in mind some Guiding Principles for tax reform.
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I want to go back to the slide about replacing announcer you can watch all this discussion at www. Cspan. Org. We take you now live to the u. S. Capitol. It is question with House Science Committee don meyer. He is expected to talk about the potential impact of the Trump Administrations this Mission Decision to withdraw from the paris climate agreement. Just Getting Started here on cspan. Certainly with the cooperation of the United States in many countries around the world begin to plan for the future of world local development would apply not only to the least developed countries but just as well equally and universally to the critical state of affairs for human inhts and for development the bestequipped countries, including the United States. Out of that conversation can this extraordinary set of Sustainable Development goals to help lead the way for all countries voluntarily to collaborate in how we will achieve the outcomes of those goals as set we were just years into this. Alrea
Hill on an august day. That is due to the extraordinary lineup. Five years ago, maybe even before five years ago, United Nations, with the cooperation of the United States and with many countries around the world, began to plan for the future of world Global Development that would apply not only to the least developed countries but just as well, equally and universally, to the critical rightsf affairs of human bestr development in the equipped countries. Including the United States. Out of that conversation came this extraordinary set of Sustainable Development goals to help lead the way for all voluntarily, importantly voluntarily, to collaborate on how we will achieve the outcomes of those goals as set forth for the years of 2013 and 2030. So already it has been in progress to talk about. The millennium Development Goals that were really quite extraordinarily successful. By focusing across the world the attention of development agencies. But now focusing the attention of almost all l