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 25, 2023
Almost three weeks after the worst wildfire in modern U.S. history devastated the town of Lahaina and surrounding areas on the Hawaiian island of Maui, the human impacts of the disaster remain hard...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 11, 2023
The latest data on homeowner distress is heartening overall: As of June, the national number of seriously delinquent mortgages stood at a 15-year low, and foreclosures were 38 percent below their...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 4, 2023
The Federal Housing Finance Agency received nearly 3,500 responses to its request for input on potential tenant protections for multifamily properties backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as the...
NCSHA Washington Report | July 28, 2023
Over the past five years, the Ivory Prize has emerged as the most high-profile award for innovations in construction, financing, and public policy that point toward “ambitious, feasible, and...
NCSHA Washington Report | July 14, 2023
Observers of the housing-related activities of two powerful congressional committees this week could be forgiven for feeling an acute sense of cognitive dissonance. The House Financial Services...
NCSHA Washington Report | June 30, 2023
The same forces causing the highest home mortgage insurance costs in decades, which we wrote about last week, are also inflicting punishing financial penalties on apartment owners and developers...
NCSHA Washington Report | June 23, 2023
In California, State Farm, the state’s largest home insurance provider, with a 20 percent market share as of 2021, announced last month it would stop selling new residential policies because of...
NCSHA Washington Report | June 9, 2023
Doubters of bipartisanship’s vitality in a polarized Congress had a rough week at the hands of Republicans and Democrats who jointly introduced two new bills that would lower costs for...
NCSHA Washington Report | June 2, 2023
As cities around the country are reportedly considering converting vacant office space into apartments and other uses, the federal government is missing an opportunity to repurpose obsolete...
NCSHA Washington Report | May 19, 2023
Nine months after the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, considered by many President Biden’s signature achievement, the mind-boggling scale of the law’s incentives for renewable energy...
