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 21, 2025
One indicator that an idea is gaining real traction in politics is when people who agree with its fundamental premise start to attack it. That’s what’s been happening to the notion that the...
NCSHA Washington Report | November 14, 2025
After the longest shutdown in history, the federal government is back open. Five questions are top of mind in housing policy circles heading into the holiday season. How will the White House...
NCSHA Washington Report | November 7, 2025
When the federal shutdown started October 1, the White House saw an opportunity to end programs it objects to, accelerate firings of federal workers, and inflict maximum political pain on...
NCSHA Washington Report | October 31, 2025
In the absence of an overarching federal law governing artificial intelligence, state governments, approaching AI as both regulators and users, have moved quickly to define some of the...
NCSHA Washington Report | October 24, 2025
The Council of Large Public Housing Authorities, pointing to “chronic disinvestment and aging developments” and “evidence that the unmet capital needs in public housing are growing,” says...
NCSHA Washington Report | October 17, 2025
Coming at a time when housing affordability is a higher priority for more Americans than ever, the ROAD to Housing Act is the most wide-ranging housing bill to pass the Senate in memory. It...
NCSHA Washington Report | October 2, 2025
Our weekly newsletter is arriving a day early due to NCSHA’s Annual Conference starting this weekend. Take the federal government seriously with respect to what it says it expects to be the...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 26, 2025
Budget brinksmanship has become as regular an autumn tradition in Washington as back-to-school, but with a federal government shutdown now five days away, and neither party in any mood to...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 19, 2025
Several apartment projects promising more than 200 affordable homes that received state and federal funding last fall are struggling to break ground on schedule across one New England state. A...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 12, 2025
The issue of “housing finance reform,” meaning how the federal government’s conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which marked 17 years Monday, might end, or at least evolve, is a...
