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 | October 6, 2023
Anyone else on the short list of elected officials who have delivered affordable housing results like Maine Governor Jane Mills (D) has recently might have basked a little longer in the warm...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 29, 2023
Hundreds of state and local agencies, tribal governments, and nonprofit organizations are scrambling to finish applications due in two weeks to the Environmental Protection Agency for a combined...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 22, 2023
With more strikes underway today than at any time in the past 20 years and union approval ratings higher than their long-term polling average, the “uneasy relationship” between organized labor...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 15, 2023
The fact that last summer’s debt ceiling deal averted the worst possible outcome of a U.S. government default and passed Congress with bipartisan support in the House and Senate led some to...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 8, 2023
With apologies to the Harper’s Index, a set of numbers that shed some light on the state of housing affordability heading into the fall: Years since the average 30-year home mortgage...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 25, 2023
Almost three weeks after the worst wildfire in modern U.S. history devastated the town of Lahaina and surrounding areas on the Hawaiian island of Maui, the human impacts of the disaster remain hard...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 11, 2023
The latest data on homeowner distress is heartening overall: As of June, the national number of seriously delinquent mortgages stood at a 15-year low, and foreclosures were 38 percent below their...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 4, 2023
The Federal Housing Finance Agency received nearly 3,500 responses to its request for input on potential tenant protections for multifamily properties backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as the...
NCSHA Washington Report | July 28, 2023
Over the past five years, the Ivory Prize has emerged as the most high-profile award for innovations in construction, financing, and public policy that point toward “ambitious, feasible, and...
NCSHA Washington Report | July 14, 2023
Observers of the housing-related activities of two powerful congressional committees this week could be forgiven for feeling an acute sense of cognitive dissonance. The House Financial Services...
