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 | May 20, 2022
We’re thrilled to announce today a new NCSHA effort to support strategic partnerships between state HFAs, hospitals, and other health organizations to finance affordable housing in...
NCSHA Washington Report | May 13, 2022
Five years after the federal Opportunity Zones program’s debut, reviews still generate more heat than light, with opinions on its effectiveness sharply divided and hard evidence of its impact...
NCSHA Washington Report | May 6, 2022
Even when the administration’s (and our) hopes were higher for the historic housing production investments proposed in the Build Back Better agenda, which required Congressional approval, the...
NCSHA Washington Report | April 29, 2022
The primary policy to prevent mass homeowner distress during the pandemic was mass mortgage forbearance, provided through acts of Congress and moves by various federal agencies....
NCSHA Washington Report | April 22, 2022
NCSHA’s Greg Zagorski and I were pleased to speak virtually this week with officials from 10 federal agencies and state housing and energy agency stakeholders in manufactured housing about...
NCSHA Washington Report | April 15, 2022
An extraordinary opportunity for immediate federal support to stem surging housing costs we first flagged in February is now in clearer focus as a result of a new NCSHA survey and webpage online...
NCSHA Washington Report | April 8, 2022
Dozens of cities across the U.S. are clearing encampments of unhoused people and “pushing other strict measures to address homelessness that would have been unheard of a few years ago,”...
NCSHA Washington Report | April 1, 2022
Today an estimated 2.4 million homeowners will start paying more for their flood insurance. For 330,000 of them, the increases will be significant, and since many live in the same coastal areas,...
NCSHA Washington Report | March 25, 2022
Sarah Bloom Raskin’s withdrawal last week of her nomination to become vice chair of the Federal Reserve due to Senate Banking Committee Republicans’ and Senator Manchin’s objections to...
NCSHA Washington Report | March 11, 2022
In passing a bill to fund the federal government’s current fiscal year five months late, Congress this week also reauthorized an essential law for the first time in almost a decade: the...
