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NCSHA Washington Report | April 12, 2024
If youāre at all stressed about next weekās tax filing deadline, just wait til next year around now, when not only will everyoneās 2024 returns be due but our federal political system will be...
NCSHA Washington Report | April 5, 2024
The first flagship initiative of the Federal Housing Administration was not the home purchase mortgage insurance program the agency is known for today but rather a home improvement program...
NCSHA Washington Report | March 22, 2024
Housing finance agencies have always acted as āgap fillersā: providers of the necessary capital to fund the difference between what it costs ā under current conditions ā to buy or build...
NCSHA Washington Report | March 15, 2024
No part of the country offers more compelling proof that solving housing affordability is a top priority for policymakers of every political persuasion than the Mountain West. From blue...
NCSHA Washington Report | March 1, 2024
This week the White House made its seventh major announcement since September 2021 of multiple steps the administration is taking through various federal departments to increase home building and...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 23, 2024
In early 1974, the burgeoning national network of the 27 state housing finance agencies in existence at the time was at a crossroads. Moodyās had recently changed its methodology for rating...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 16, 2024
As usual by around this time of year, most of the countryās governors have given their annual state of the state addresses, and many have submitted their budget proposals to their state...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 9, 2024
Nobody disagrees that the Low Income Housing Tax Credit is āthe most important resource for creating affordable housing in the United States today.ā The Housing Credit isnāt perfect ā...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 2, 2024
Regrettably, if predictably, press coverage of the Houseās passage of the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act by a 357ā70 vote this week, containing a major expansion of the...
NCSHA Washington Report | January 26, 2024
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives: Your opportunity to vote, potentially next week, for or against the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act is ā and is not ā about a...
NCSHA Washington Report | January 19, 2024
We recently highlighted three federal regulations expected this year that have high stakes for housing affordability. The Supreme Court also could act on several cases with far-reaching impacts...
NCSHA Washington Report | January 5, 2024
While weāre laser-focused on doing everything we can over the next few weeks, in yet another delayed congressional appropriations process, to increase the two most important federal programs...