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 | April 19, 2024
A Senate hearing this past Wednesday entitled “Challenges in Preserving the U.S. Housing Stock” brought to mind longtime housing lawyer and legislative advocate Chuck Edson’s observation that...
NCSHA Washington Report | April 12, 2024
If you’re at all stressed about next week’s tax filing deadline, just wait til next year around now, when not only will everyone’s 2024 returns be due but our federal political system will be...
NCSHA Washington Report | April 5, 2024
The first flagship initiative of the Federal Housing Administration was not the home purchase mortgage insurance program the agency is known for today but rather a home improvement program...
NCSHA Washington Report | March 22, 2024
Housing finance agencies have always acted as “gap fillers”: providers of the necessary capital to fund the difference between what it costs — under current conditions — to buy or build...
NCSHA Washington Report | March 15, 2024
No part of the country offers more compelling proof that solving housing affordability is a top priority for policymakers of every political persuasion than the Mountain West. From blue...
NCSHA Washington Report | March 1, 2024
This week the White House made its seventh major announcement since September 2021 of multiple steps the administration is taking through various federal departments to increase home building and...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 23, 2024
In early 1974, the burgeoning national network of the 27 state housing finance agencies in existence at the time was at a crossroads. Moody’s had recently changed its methodology for rating...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 16, 2024
As usual by around this time of year, most of the country’s governors have given their annual state of the state addresses, and many have submitted their budget proposals to their state...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 9, 2024
Nobody disagrees that the Low Income Housing Tax Credit is “the most important resource for creating affordable housing in the United States today.” The Housing Credit isn’t perfect —...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 2, 2024
Regrettably, if predictably, press coverage of the House’s passage of the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act by a 357–70 vote this week, containing a major expansion of the...
