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 | November 15, 2019
Martha Ross and Nicole Bateman of the Brookings Institution have produced a remarkable analysis of the demographics of America’s “low-wage” workforce: the 53 million people...
NCSHA Washington Report | November 8, 2019
With daylight saving time in effect, we’re missing the late afternoon light on the East Coast and thinking a little more about the sun. On the West Coast, in California, most everyone...
NCSHA Washington Report | November 1, 2019
Housing industry analyst John McManus predicts that, within a few years, at least three of the top 10 home-building companies will have a business model aimed at the affordability...
NCSHA Washington Report | October 18, 2019
As America’s state housing finance agencies and hundreds of their partners head to Boston for NCSHA’s Annual Conference starting tomorrow, we take note of some of the honest-to-goodness good...
NCSHA Washington Report | October 11, 2019
Housing’s centrality to the economy and its interconnectedness with public policy means that the “law of unintended consequences” applies forcefully, with sometimes surprising...
NCSHA Washington Report | October 4, 2019
MaineHousing’s evolution from an agency born 50 years ago Tuesday with $68,000 in the bank into a $2 billion public-private enterprise that helps more than 100,000 people and pumps...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 27, 2019
Whether you think Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and Airbnb have gotten too much credit or not enough for recent commitments that exceed $2 billion combined for affordable housing...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 20, 2019
We’ve argued before that the common characterization of rural America as doomed to fall further behind faster growing urban areas is often wrong. In fact, many rural areas...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 13, 2019
As we reported last week, HUD has issued guidance implementing the authorization in the department’s FY 2018 funding bill to make Section 202 Housing for the Elderly rental assistance...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 6, 2019
Agencies all over Washington are in advanced stages of revising some of the most important federal rules for affordable housing and community development. The results, starting as soon as next...
