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NCSHA Washington Report | October 14, 2022
The upshot of last weekās two announcements by the Treasury Department and IRS regarding the Housing Credit program is that a number of very good things for low-income renters and apartment...
NCSHA Washington Report | October 7, 2022
The first comprehensive federal review of the Federal Home Loan Bank system is officially underway, with the completion this week of three days of public testimony from interested parties in...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 30, 2022
Comments submitted to HUD this week revealed deep opposition throughout the affordable housing industry to the departmentās high-risk proposal to radically restructure the long-running...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 23, 2022
We try to stay in our lane here at Washington Report, which is plenty wide, with housing affordability and supply among the central social and economic challenges facing our country and state...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 16, 2022
The news that āsurging housing costs are the engine drivingā the latest inflation numbers wasnāt a revelation to any of us at the New Mexico Housing Summit in Albuquerque this week ā...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 9, 2022
A more fluid political environment than either party expected when summer started has Democrats and Republicans in Congress especially eager to start the home stretch of campaigning sooner than...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 26, 2022
āIMMENSELY AGAINST multifamily development!ā Thatās apparently the subject line of an irate email message from the famous Silicon Valley venture capitalist Mark Andreeson and his wife...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 19, 2022
Neither the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) nor the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) ended up investing much in the inflation-reducing affordable housing infrastructure the nation needs, a...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 12, 2022
During the Clinton Administration, HUD, saying it had been āthe poster child for inept governmentā¦plagued for years by scandal and mismanagement,ā took steps to reform. One of the most...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 5, 2022
The Biden-Harris Administration has put eviction prevention reform alongside increasing supply at the center of its ambitious affordable housing agenda. On the latter, the policy path is clear...
NCSHA Washington Report | July 22, 2022
At this weekās Senate Finance Committee hearing on tax incentives for affordable housing, Oregon Housing and Community Services Executive Director Andrea Bell didnāt mince words,...
NCSHA Washington Report | July 15, 2022
As Covidās most immediate impacts on the geography of housing demand come into clearer view, the longer-term implications remain uncertain, and hugely consequential, for regional economies and...