legitimate business practices, despite no intention of singling out a
particular group protected by the Fair Housing Act
• Requested regulatory clarifications and other guidance from HUD
on specific disparate impact operations practices to address apartment
industry concerns related to unintentional discrimination
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• Secured enactment of a long-term reauthorization of the Terrorism
Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) to ensure that apartment owners have
access to affordable terrorism insurance.
• Attained enactment of bipartisan cybersecurity legislation that
establishes voluntary cyber threat information sharing between the
public and private sectors and includes strong liability and anti-trust
protections for participating apartment firms and other businesses
• Secured the passage of bipartisan patent reform legislation by the
House and Senate judiciary committees, which would help curb
unsupported patent infringement claims that are a costly drain for the
multifamily industry
Military Housing
• Achieved enactment of legislation to limit the basic allowance for
housing reduction to 1 percent in 2015 and eliminated other changes to
military housing benefits
Energy & Environment
• Advocated for science-based definition for waters subject to federal
jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act to limit runaway regulatory
costs
• Opposed the Energy Department’s one-size-fits all gas furnace
efficiency rule that would result in expensive and technically infeasible
ventilation requirements for many multifamily properties.
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• Secured enactment of a key provision in the Energy Efficiency
Improvement Act of 2015 establishing a new, voluntary program to
identify spaces in commercial buildings that have achieved certain levels
of energy efficiency as part of the Tenant Star program.
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• Advocated for common-sense lead regulations by streamlining the
training requirements for the recertification of workers who disturb lead
and provided detailed comments on lead in the public and commercial
rule
Construction & Development
• Advocated for building codes and standards that are technologically
feasible, cost-effective and reflect the unique characteristics of the
multifamily industry
• Blocked unnecessary changes to the ICC codes
• Identified proposals to address concerns raised about apartment fires.
Research & Analysis
• Secured critical funding for the U.S. Census Bureau’s American
Community Survey that helps the multifamily industry in estimating
the economic impact of apartment homes and ensured that the
mandatory nature remained intact despite continued attempts to allow
voluntary responses
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