- April 24, 2012
On April 23, NCSHA's 2012 Legislative Conference kicked off with addresses from Idaho Housing and Finance Association President and Executive Director and NCSHA President Gerald Hunter, NCSHA Executive Director Barbara Thompson, the Department of Treasury's Under Secretary for Domestic Finance Mary Miller, the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Housing Commission Co-Chair Former Senator Christopher Bond, and a panel of housing industry experts.
- April 23, 2012
On April 23, Mary Miller, the Department of Treasury's Under Secretary for Domestic Finance, spoke to attendees at NCSHA's Legislative Conference regarding the HFA Initiative, the Hardest Hit Fund, and other partnerships with HFAs.
- April 11, 2012
Michigan is among the nation's 18 states and District of Columbia that have a Housing Finance Authority (HFA) participating in the Hardest Hit Fund program. The Hardest Hit Fund provides $7.6 billion for HFAs to design and implement programs to prevent avoidable foreclosure.
- January 18, 2012
HFA directors and staff, Administration officials, and industry partners came together last week for NCSHA's HFA Institute MRBs and Federal Mortgage Insurance conference. For three days, attendees took advantage of the opportunity to network with their peers and receive top-notch education during more than a dozen sessions.
- December 2, 2011
Only the Institute uniquely features senior Administration officials discussing the latest administrative, regulatory, and legislative developments and top-notch training by nationally
recognized experts combined with the knowledge and experience of program administrators and their partners from across the country. - October 12, 2011
On October 6, the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing, and Community Opportunity held a hearing on the Obama Administration’s response to the housing crisis. Representatives from Treasury, HUD, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) all testified about how programs run by their agencies are addressing the housing crisis.
- June 20, 2011
On June 20, HUD and NeighborWorks America announced the launch of the Emergency Homeowners’ Loan Program (EHLP). The Dodd-Frank Act, enacted in July 2010, provided $1 billion to HUD to fund EHLP. The program will assist borrowers in Puerto Rico and the 32 states not receiving funding through the Hardest-Hit Fund.
- April 11, 2011
Recent housing data “show a troubling dip in home sales and housing prices,” according to the March Obama Administration Housing Scorecard and accompanying press release. HUD and Treasury jointly release the Housing Scorecard every month to provide information on the health of the housing market.
- March 15, 2011
On Monday, March 7, NCSHA's 2011 Legislative Conference kicked off with addresses from NCSHA President Gerald Hunter, NCSHA Executive Director Barbara Thompson, a presentation by Barbara Sard of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, an industry panel discussion, and a briefing by NCSHA's Policy and Government Affairs team.
- March 14, 2011
On March 11, the House passed the Emergency Mortgage Relief Program Termination Act, H.R. 836, by a vote of 242 to 177. The Act rescinds the unobligated $1 billion made available in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act for the Emergency Homeowners’ Loan Program (EHLP) under the Emergency Mortgage Relief Program.
