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 | August 28, 2026
Five years ago this week, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the nationwide moratorium on renter evictions the Biden administration had imposed, through the Centers for Disease Control, three...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 14, 2026
Give the beleaguered 119th Congress credit: For two summers in a row, it’s passed legislation aimed at spurring private-sector action and supporting state and local initiatives to build more...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 7, 2026
As of 2023, nearly 700,000 people receiving some form of government support, most of them with intellectual or developmental disabilities, were on waiting lists for Medicaid-reimbursable home...
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,...
