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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 BowmanDirector, Marketing and Communications.

NCSHA Washington Report | January 28, 2022

This week’s HFA Institute included the annual deep dive into the latest on the housing program that has been around longer and done more good than it ever seems to get credit for: HOME. The...

NCSHA Washington Report | January 21, 2022

As Democrats in Washington weigh their options for trying to pass some of President Biden’s Build Back Better program this year, proponents of the historic housing investments in the version...

NCSHA Washington Report | January 14, 2022

Speaking virtually this week to hundreds of state HFA staff from around the country during NCSHA’s HFA Institute, HUD Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multifamily Housing Ethan Handelman...

NCSHA Washington Report | January 7, 2022

State housing finance agencies, always the vanguard of financing for affordable homeownership opportunities and rental apartment properties for low-income people, also will be busy this year...

NCSHA Washington Report | December 17, 2021

Every day, working people of modest means make entirely rational decisions to decline a raise, defer training, or turn down a better job because the higher income they would earn as a result...

NCSHA Washington Report | December 10, 2021

If you were a shareholder in the enterprise that was the largest insurer of mortgages in the world, supported almost 20 percent of home purchases in the United States today, and served double the...

NCSHA Washington Report | December 3, 2021

The Treasury Department will soon announce the results of its first cut at right-sizing amounts of federal emergency rental assistance funds among the more than 450 state, county, local, and...

NCSHA Washington Report | November 19, 2021

Data from several new reports illustrate a remarkable resilience among affordable rental properties and landlords more than 18 months into the pandemic. CohnReznick’s latest biennial...

NCSHA Washington Report | November 12, 2021

While the short-term economic effects of the $1 trillion infrastructure bill President Biden plans to sign Monday are a subject of debate, most analysts expect the Infrastructure Investment and...

NCSHA Washington Report | November 5, 2021

Candidate Biden promised to “close loopholes that would allow [nonbank financial institutions] to avoid lending and investing in all of the communities they serve.” President Biden’s White...