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 | October 29, 2021
The “Build Back Better” bill congressional Democrats plan to pass soon, which the White House says contains “the single largest and most comprehensive investment in affordable housing in...
NCSHA Washington Report | October 22, 2021
Planning edicts from federal regulators tend to get bureaucratic and interest group wheels spinning without necessarily leading to any actual movement. The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s...
NCSHA Washington Report | October 15, 2021
The biggest challenge for state and local agencies operating the Emergency Rental Assistance program has been creating what the administration calls “a new national infrastructure” largely...
NCSHA Washington Report | October 8, 2021
Don’t look now, but the Emergency Rental Assistance program may be emerging as one of the success stories in the federal response to the pandemic, for some unlikely and underreported reasons:...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 24, 2021
The seeds of innovation in state housing finance were planted a century ago, in California, with the passage of a state law to “provide veterans with the opportunity to acquire farms and...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 17, 2021
During a week when historic housing legislation advanced in Congress, HUD announced it “will begin obligating” billions for homeless housing relief to states and cities, and FHFA continued...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 10, 2021
With millions of renters billions behind on rent and utilities, and many at grave risk of losing their homes, it’s understandable the primary federal policy to help them catch up — the...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 27, 2021
This week, the Treasury Department announced new flexibilities for state and local governments administering federal Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) funds, and the House passed a budget...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 20, 2021
Just two months in as acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Sandra Thompson is exerting leadership that represents real change at the powerful regulator. Thompson’s...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 13, 2021
An avalanche of missed payments that buries borrowers of color deepest. A burdensome legacy of debt that denies affordable housing opportunity. An expensive policy problem that divides Democrats...
