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 26, 2022
“IMMENSELY AGAINST multifamily development!” That’s apparently the subject line of an irate email message from the famous Silicon Valley venture capitalist Mark Andreeson and his wife...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 19, 2022
Neither the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) nor the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) ended up investing much in the inflation-reducing affordable housing infrastructure the nation needs, a...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 12, 2022
During the Clinton Administration, HUD, saying it had been “the poster child for inept government…plagued for years by scandal and mismanagement,” took steps to reform. One of the most...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 5, 2022
The Biden-Harris Administration has put eviction prevention reform alongside increasing supply at the center of its ambitious affordable housing agenda. On the latter, the policy path is clear...
NCSHA Washington Report | July 22, 2022
At this week’s Senate Finance Committee hearing on tax incentives for affordable housing, Oregon Housing and Community Services Executive Director Andrea Bell didn’t mince words,...
NCSHA Washington Report | July 15, 2022
As Covid’s most immediate impacts on the geography of housing demand come into clearer view, the longer-term implications remain uncertain, and hugely consequential, for regional economies and...
NCSHA Washington Report | July 8, 2022
While we were gone… The House Appropriations Committee approved funding for HUD’s next fiscal year that’s 17 percent higher than this year’s level. The committee’s bill includes $1.7...
NCSHA Washington Report | June 17, 2022
The fact that the most significant federal incentive for affordable apartment construction is largely a state-designed and delivered program, reflecting core federal concerns, is not news to...
NCSHA Washington Report | June 10, 2022
Some of the impacts higher interest rates have on housing costs are fairly obvious, yet their knock-on effects can be surprising in the additional affordability challenges they create. For...
NCSHA Washington Report | June 3, 2022
HUD Secretary Fudge and her regional office leaders were out in force this week highlighting how the agency’s programs are helping create more affordable homes alongside state and local...
