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 | February 24, 2023
What’s old is new again, sometimes, in housing finance. Allowing renters to improve their credit scores based on their timely rent payments is a timely example. As Michael Stegman and Kelly...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 17, 2023
The Treasury Department reported this week that state and local governments had committed, through the third quarter of last year, more than $14 billion to “nearly 1,800 housing...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 10, 2023
Rafael Cestero, CEO of the Community Preservation Corporation, which has financed more than 220,000 affordable apartments in New York and elsewhere, recently articulated a rising sentiment among...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 3, 2023
Even as President Biden announced on Monday that the federal government will end in May the broad national and public health emergency declarations related to Covid-19, the contours of the...
NCSHA Washington Report | January 27, 2023
The disappointment expressed by both landlord groups and renter advocates at the Biden – Harris Administration’s announcement this week of new federal initiatives intended...
NCSHA Washington Report | January 20, 2023
There’s still cause for cautious optimism that some of the most significant and enduring economic disruptions of the pandemic — the rise of remote work and the partial emptying of downtowns...
NCSHA Washington Report | January 6, 2023
Five reasons for some optimism about affordable housing finance and development at the start of 2023: The Homeowner Assistance Fund is working. Created by Congress to help economically...
NCSHA Washington Report | SPECIAL EDITION | December 23, 2022
December 23, 2022: UPDATE Congress has passed the FY 2023 Omnibus appropriations legislation, with the House voting this afternoon 225-201 plus one member voting present following Senate...
NCSHA Washington Report | December 16, 2022
Housers have to hope for a compromise between Democrats and Republicans in the next few days on legislation that includes the top tax priority of the moment for each — because otherwise...
NCSHA Washington Report | December 9, 2022
Covid-19 and rising trade tensions with China have ushered in a surprising, bipartisan embrace of a national “industrial policy,” the idea that government should support industries deemed...
