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 | June 30, 2023
The same forces causing the highest home mortgage insurance costs in decades, which we wrote about last week, are also inflicting punishing financial penalties on apartment owners and developers...
NCSHA Washington Report | June 23, 2023
In California, State Farm, the state’s largest home insurance provider, with a 20 percent market share as of 2021, announced last month it would stop selling new residential policies because of...
NCSHA Washington Report | June 9, 2023
Doubters of bipartisanship’s vitality in a polarized Congress had a rough week at the hands of Republicans and Democrats who jointly introduced two new bills that would lower costs for...
NCSHA Washington Report | June 2, 2023
As cities around the country are reportedly considering converting vacant office space into apartments and other uses, the federal government is missing an opportunity to repurpose obsolete...
NCSHA Washington Report | May 19, 2023
Nine months after the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, considered by many President Biden’s signature achievement, the mind-boggling scale of the law’s incentives for renewable energy...
NCSHA Washington Report | May 12, 2023
Rarely has a bill in Congress been better made for its moment than the Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act, introduced yesterday in the House and Senate. A moment of urgent need for...
NCSHA Washington Report | May 5, 2023
It was an honor to be in Harrisburg this week for the 50th anniversary celebration of the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency, in no small part because Pennsylvanians invented the very idea of a...
NCSHA Washington Report | April 28, 2023
The Federal Housing Finance Agency this week began belatedly to respond to the rising tide of criticism over the agency’s plan to increase the upfront fees on mortgages backed by Fannie Mae and...
NCSHA Washington Report | April 21, 2023
One of the reasons the Fair Housing Act, sometimes called the “last plank” of the civil rights movement, has been perhaps the hardest of all to put in place is because it not only bars...
NCSHA Washington Report | April 14, 2023
Two new reports together produce a current picture of an historic level of home improvement activity in the U.S. alongside rapidly worsening repair needs for millions of low-income...
