- April 30, 2012
State HFAs are dedicated to financing and preserving affordable rental housing for low-income residents. As housing providers, they have a strong interest in the opportunity presented by RAD to help preserve at-risk affordable housing, support rehabilitation, and extend affordability by converting public and other HUD-assisted properties to long-term, project-based Section 8 rental assistance.
- April 23, 2012
When meeting with House and Senate Appropriations Committee members, especially HUD Subcommittee members, stress the importance of and the state or district benefits of the HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME) program, the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher (voucher) and Project-Based Section 8 rental assistance programs, and the Housing Trust Fund.
- April 20, 2012
Project-based Section 8 rental assistance (PBRA) contracts provide subsidies for affordable multifamily rental developments to lower rental costs for low-income families and to help offset construction, rehabilitation, and preservation costs.
- April 10, 2012
Entries for the 2012 Robert C. Larson Workforce Housing Public Policy Awards should be submitted by May 18 and sent directly to the Urban Land Institute Terwilliger Center.
- March 30, 2012
In this March 23 "Dear Colleague" letter, Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Scott Brown (R-MA), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Carl Levin (D-MI), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), and Charles Schumer (D-NY) ask Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the Chairwoman of the T-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee, and Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), the Ranking Member, to provide the necessary amount to fully fund all Project-Based Section 8 contracts for the their one-year term for FY 2012.
- March 20, 2012
This briefing covers NCSHA's 2012 legislative priorities, recent action from Congress and the Administration, and what HFAs and other housing stakeholders can do to support NCSHA's priorities and affordable housing.
- March 5, 2012
Short funding PBRA contracts does not reduce federal expenditures. The proposed $1.1 billion “reduction” shifts costs to future budgets without actually achieving any savings.
- March 2, 2012
This is a letter, signed by NCSHA and 18 other national organizations, to Appropriations Committee Leadership requesting that they reject HUD's proposal to short-fund Section 8 Project-Based Rental Assistance contracts in FY 2013.
- January 25, 2012
This is the draft legislation for the Affordable Housing and Self-Sufficiency Improvement Act of 2011.
