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 | March 4, 2022
Everyone in housing has their sights on the need for more new construction to help slow out-of-control costs. Coming into focus for many is an equally immediate need — and arguably more...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 25, 2022
Before the pandemic, federal social safety net programs typically came with significant application requirements designed to deter con artists seeking to rip off the taxpayers and deprive...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 11, 2022
The real estate story of the moment is single-family built-to-rent (BTR), which is actually a bunch of stories wrapped up in one. A Wall Street story. Hunter Housing Economics projected $40...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 4, 2022
We were disappointed the Treasury Department’s final rules for the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds program missed a major opportunity we recommended to optimize the funds for affordable...
NCSHA Washington Report | January 28, 2022
This week’s HFA Institute included the annual deep dive into the latest on the housing program that has been around longer and done more good than it ever seems to get credit for: HOME. The...
NCSHA Washington Report | January 21, 2022
As Democrats in Washington weigh their options for trying to pass some of President Biden’s Build Back Better program this year, proponents of the historic housing investments in the version...
NCSHA Washington Report | January 14, 2022
Speaking virtually this week to hundreds of state HFA staff from around the country during NCSHA’s HFA Institute, HUD Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multifamily Housing Ethan Handelman...
NCSHA Washington Report | January 7, 2022
State housing finance agencies, always the vanguard of financing for affordable homeownership opportunities and rental apartment properties for low-income people, also will be busy this year...
NCSHA Washington Report | December 17, 2021
Every day, working people of modest means make entirely rational decisions to decline a raise, defer training, or turn down a better job because the higher income they would earn as a result...
NCSHA Washington Report | December 10, 2021
If you were a shareholder in the enterprise that was the largest insurer of mortgages in the world, supported almost 20 percent of home purchases in the United States today, and served double the...
