NCSHA COVID-19 Blogs, News, and Resources
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NCSHA Washington Report | September 22, 2023
With more strikes underway today than at any time in the past 20 years and union approval ratings higher than their long-term polling average, the “uneasy relationship” between organized labor...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 15, 2023
The fact that last summer’s debt ceiling deal averted the worst possible outcome of a U.S. government default and passed Congress with bipartisan support in the House and Senate led some to...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 8, 2023
With apologies to the Harper’s Index, a set of numbers that shed some light on the state of housing affordability heading into the fall: Years since the average 30-year home mortgage...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 25, 2023
Almost three weeks after the worst wildfire in modern U.S. history devastated the town of Lahaina and surrounding areas on the Hawaiian island of Maui, the human impacts of the disaster remain hard...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 11, 2023
The latest data on homeowner distress is heartening overall: As of June, the national number of seriously delinquent mortgages stood at a 15-year low, and foreclosures were 38 percent below their...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 4, 2023
The Federal Housing Finance Agency received nearly 3,500 responses to its request for input on potential tenant protections for multifamily properties backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as the...
NCSHA Washington Report | July 28, 2023
Over the past five years, the Ivory Prize has emerged as the most high-profile award for innovations in construction, financing, and public policy that point toward “ambitious, feasible, and...
NCSHA Washington Report | July 14, 2023
Observers of the housing-related activities of two powerful congressional committees this week could be forgiven for feeling an acute sense of cognitive dissonance. The House Financial Services...
NCSHA Washington Report | June 30, 2023
The same forces causing the highest home mortgage insurance costs in decades, which we wrote about last week, are also inflicting punishing financial penalties on apartment owners and developers...
NCSHA Comments on Payment Supplement Partial Claim Draft Mortgagee Letter
This June 30, 2023, letter provides comments to the Department of Housing and Urban Development on its draft mortgagee letter regarding the Payment Supplement Partial Claim.
NCSHA Washington Report | June 23, 2023
In California, State Farm, the state’s largest home insurance provider, with a 20 percent market share as of 2021, announced last month it would stop selling new residential policies because of...
NCSHA Washington Report | June 9, 2023
Doubters of bipartisanship’s vitality in a polarized Congress had a rough week at the hands of Republicans and Democrats who jointly introduced two new bills that would lower costs for...
