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 | December 3, 2021
The Treasury Department will soon announce the results of its first cut at right-sizing amounts of federal emergency rental assistance funds among the more than 450 state, county, local, and...
NCSHA Washington Report | November 19, 2021
Data from several new reports illustrate a remarkable resilience among affordable rental properties and landlords more than 18 months into the pandemic. CohnReznick’s latest biennial...
NCSHA Washington Report | November 12, 2021
While the short-term economic effects of the $1 trillion infrastructure bill President Biden plans to sign Monday are a subject of debate, most analysts expect the Infrastructure Investment and...
NCSHA Washington Report | November 5, 2021
Candidate Biden promised to “close loopholes that would allow [nonbank financial institutions] to avoid lending and investing in all of the communities they serve.” President Biden’s White...
NCSHA Washington Report | October 29, 2021
The “Build Back Better” bill congressional Democrats plan to pass soon, which the White House says contains “the single largest and most comprehensive investment in affordable housing in...
NCSHA Washington Report | October 22, 2021
Planning edicts from federal regulators tend to get bureaucratic and interest group wheels spinning without necessarily leading to any actual movement. The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s...
NCSHA Washington Report | October 15, 2021
The biggest challenge for state and local agencies operating the Emergency Rental Assistance program has been creating what the administration calls “a new national infrastructure” largely...
NCSHA Washington Report | October 8, 2021
Don’t look now, but the Emergency Rental Assistance program may be emerging as one of the success stories in the federal response to the pandemic, for some unlikely and underreported reasons:...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 24, 2021
The seeds of innovation in state housing finance were planted a century ago, in California, with the passage of a state law to “provide veterans with the opportunity to acquire farms and...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 17, 2021
During a week when historic housing legislation advanced in Congress, HUD announced it “will begin obligating” billions for homeless housing relief to states and cities, and FHFA continued...
