Washington Report
The Washington Report offers NCSHA members a weekly update on the latest affordable housing developments in Washington, as well as NCSHA activities and HFA initiatives and innovations. To learn more about NCSHA, membership, or upcoming events, please contact us. We welcome media inquiries; please contact Lisa Bowman, Director, Marketing and Communications.
NCSHA Washington Report | July 31, 2026
Federal policies affecting home mortgage lending were not a primary focus of President Trump’s immigration agenda in his first year back in office. They have started to become more of one...
NCSHA Washington Report | July 24, 2026
The White House’s proposal, through its Office of Management and Budget, to impose intrusive bureaucratic and political controls over trillions of dollars of annual federal funding, which we...
NCSHA Washington Report | July 10, 2026
Remarking on the renaming, in 1971, of the U.S. Bureau of the Budget to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under his boss, President Richard Nixon, White House aide John Ehrlichman said,...
NCSHA Washington Report | June 26, 2026
We’re still optimistic President Trump will sign the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act into law, even after he belittled the bill and blew up his scheduled signing ceremony with hours’...
NCSHA Washington Report | June 12, 2026
It’s not news that America’s housing shortage, while largely national in scope, is highly local in scale, with huge variations in how much and what type of additional housing is needed where,...
NCSHA Washington Report | May 29, 2026
Several years of advocacy, across two presidential administrations, may be starting to move HUD to fix its dysfunctional implementation of “domestic sourcing” requirements imposed on...
NCSHA Washington Report | May 15, 2026
Each time the House or Senate passes a version of the “21st Century ROAD to Housing” bill, the wide-ranging legislation seems to take two steps forward and one step back on the path, one hopes,...
NCSHA Washington Report | May 8, 2026
It’s more difficult than usual to gauge levels of economic stress among lower-income homeowners and assess what they may signal for the broader housing market. Data from the fourth quarter...
NCSHA Washington Report | May 1, 2026
The “pro-housing” policy movement, which took hold in state legislatures several years ago and arrived in full on Capitol Hill in 2025, is noteworthy for its bipartisan political character...
NCSHA Washington Report | April 17, 2026
While analysts disagree about whether federal Opportunity Zone tax breaks have induced investment in housing construction that would not otherwise have happened, nobody argues OZs have stimulated...
