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NCSHA COVID-19 Blogs, News, and Resources

The most recent NCSHA blogs, news, resources, statements, and talking points for HFAs are available below. For a curated compilation of COVID-19 information, guidelines, and notices published by state HFAs, the Administration, HUD, and other federal agencies, please visit the COVID-19 Resources and Updates Center.


NCSHA Washington Report | May 21, 2021

State housing finance agencies have no more important partners in helping lower-income Americans become homeowners than home mortgage lenders. Loan originators of all kinds use their creativity...

Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2021: Video Series

In this video series, Ayrianne Parks, Senior Director of Public Policy at Enterprise, and Jennifer Schwartz, Director of Tax and Housing Advocacy at NCSHA, provide an overview of each of the provisions in the Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act (AHCIA) of 2021 (S. 1136 and H.R. 2573).

NCSHA Infrastructure Priorities Memo

This memorandum outlines NCSHAā€™s top legislative priorities for 2021 federal infrastructure legislation.

Featured ERA Program: Emergency Rental Assistance Alabama

LANDLORDS: Are some of your tenants behind on their rent? | RENTERS: Canā€™t pay rent or utility bills? >> Emergency Rental Assistance Alabama can help. COVID-19 has affected residents across the state. AHFA has emergency funds available to help Alabama renters pay rent and utility bills (including past due rent and utilities).

NCSHA Washington Report | May 14, 2021

Affordable housing is essential infrastructure. Like other physical forms of it, affordable housing is a part of the built environment every community needs that the private sector simply canā€™t...

Revised FAQs on Emergency Rental Assistance Provide Guidance on Implementation of Second Round of Funding

The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) has updated its guidance on the Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) program, provided in a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) document. The updated guidance includes some policy modifications impacting both the first round of ERA funding authorized last December under the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (ERA 1) and the second round of ERA funding authorized in March under the American Rescue Plan Act (ERA 2), as well as certain new policies that relate only to ERA 2 implementation.Ā The guidance applying to ERA 2 only is reflective of the more flexible statutory language authorizing the second round of funding.

NCSHA Washington Report | May 7, 2021

Whatever you make of todayā€™s downside surprise in the jobs numbers, key sectors of the housing system that delivered during the pandemic are experiencing significant stress. Home mortgage...

Best Practices for HFA Mortgage Design: Lessons Learned from HHF and CRF Presentation

This presentation summarizes the results of NCSHAā€™s survey of HFAs that administered the federal Hardest Hit Fund (HHF) program in the aftermath of the Great Recession or administered short-term emergency homeowner assistance programs in 2020 with federal Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF).Ā  It focuses on those survey questions pertaining to mortgage assistance program design and delivery. The purpose of this presentation to help inform HFAs and other administratorsā€™ efforts to develop their Homeowner Assistance Fund programs (HAF).

U.S. Department of Treasury Library: Hardest Hit Fund Program Documents

This webpage contains the most recent fact sheets, program requirements, and allocations for each state HFAā€™s Hardest Hit Fund (HHF) program. HFAs have utilized the HHF in various ways to help homeowners avoid foreclosure and stabilize neighborhoods.

Memorandum on HFA Mortgage Assistance Programs Best Practices

This memorandum to Homeowner Assistance Fund (HAF) program administrators provides a question-by-question outline of the results of NCSHAā€™s survey of state HFAs administered the federal Hardest Hit Fund (HHF) program and/or administered short-term emergency homeowner assistance programs in 2020 with federal Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF). It is centered around questions pertaining to mortgage assistance program design and delivery.

NCSHA Washington Report | April 30, 2021

Political pros are already parsing preliminary numbers from the 2020 Census, which were released Monday. Both parties can claim optimism: Republicans because population growth is happening most...

NCSHA Washington Report | April 23, 2021

The Biden ā€“ Harris Administration has begun a delicate balancing act that aims simultaneously to end extraordinary pandemic protections for homeowners, provide additional assistance to those...