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.
Washington Report | November 16, 2018
On November 16, 2017, the House of Representatives approved its version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R.1), which would have crippled the ability of states and local communities to finance...
Washington Report | November 2, 2018
The news this week that the “self-driving” car company Waymo was granted the first permit in California to begin driverless testing on public roads was another small step towards a total...
Washington Report | October 26, 2018
We’ve come to understand the nation’s central affordable housing challenge as essentially too much demand and not enough supply, which is driving rents and prices out of reach for millions. Yet...
Washington Report | October 12, 2018
Amidst all the discouraging data and troubling trends regarding the housing affordability crisis, there are, in fact, reasons to feel some measure of optimism. Nobody should be naïve about the...
Washington Report | October 5, 2018
At New Hampshire Housing’s “2018 Housing & the Economy Conference” in Manchester yesterday, we heard from Kol Peterson, the “ADU Guru,” about the untapped potential of what you might...
Washington Report | September 28, 2018
Even words like ‘emergency’ and ‘epidemic’ seem insufficient to adequately characterize deaths from drug overdoses in this country, which now annually exceed the number of American military...
Washington Report | September 21, 2018
On August 17, North Carolina HFA executive director Scott Farmer attended a ribbon cutting at a rehabilitated home in Wilmington that had been damaged by Hurricane Matthew, one of hundreds the...
Washington Report | September 14, 2018
Ten years after the Great Recession forced the federal government to make major changes to the nation’s housing system, state housing finance agencies (HFAs) are increasingly important to the...
Washington Report | September 7, 2018
There’s a long-running argument in American politics about whether the private sector or public sector is the most cost-effective delivery system for products and services society needs, such...
Washington Report | August 31, 2018
We’ve known for a while now that a shortage of construction workers has led to higher housing costs. “Although better housing quality accounts for some of this increase, sharply higher costs for...
