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NCSHA Washington Report | April 21, 2023

One of the reasons the Fair Housing Act, sometimes called the ā€œlast plankā€ of the civil rights movement, has been perhaps the hardest of all to put in place is because it not only bars...

NCSHA Washington Report | April 14, 2023

Two new reports together produce a current picture of an historic level of home improvement activity in the U.S. alongside rapidly worsening repair needs for millions of low-income...

NCSHA Washington Report | April 7, 2023

Even those of us who donā€™t object in principle to the tax system serving as both an instrument of social policy and a mechanism for revenue collection can be amazed by just how much of the...

NCSHA Washington Report | March 24, 2023

Weā€™re very pleased to announce the HFA1 Affordable Homeownership Lender Toolkit, a new online resource that will enable home mortgage lenders to partner more efficiently with state housing...

NCSHA Washington Report | March 17, 2023

The most visible fallout from the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank affecting affordable housing so far has been local. SVB reportedly had provided $2.7 billion to finance...

NCSHA Washington Report | March 10, 2023

You could be forgiven for experiencing a bout of optimism about affordable housingā€™s relevance as a matter of national policy after this week in Washington. President Bidenā€™s budget...

NCSHA Washington Report | March 3, 2023

Some of the most innovative ideas in affordable housing are pushing the system to provide a more level field for everybody involved and affected. Some of the remarkable people doing the...

NCSHA Washington Report | February 24, 2023

Whatā€™s old is new again, sometimes, in housing finance. Allowing renters to improve their credit scores based on their timely rent payments is a timely example. As Michael Stegman and Kelly...

NCSHA Washington Report | February 17, 2023

The Treasury Department reported this week that state and local governments had committed, through the third quarter of last year, more than $14 billion to ā€œnearly 1,800 housing...

NCSHA Washington Report | February 10, 2023

Rafael Cestero, CEO of the Community Preservation Corporation, which has financed more than 220,000 affordable apartments in New York and elsewhere, recently articulated a rising sentiment among...

NCSHA Washington Report | February 3, 2023

Even as President Biden announced on Monday that the federal government will end in May the broad national and public health emergency declarations related to Covid-19, the contours of the...

NCSHA Washington Report | January 27, 2023

The disappointment expressed by both landlord groups and renter advocates at the Biden ā€“ Harris Administrationā€™s announcement this week of new federal initiatives intended...