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 | 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...
NCSHA Washington Report | April 7, 2023
Even those of us who don’t object in principle to the tax system serving as both an instrument of social policy and a mechanism for revenue collection can be amazed by just how much of the...
NCSHA Washington Report | March 24, 2023
We’re very pleased to announce the HFA1 Affordable Homeownership Lender Toolkit, a new online resource that will enable home mortgage lenders to partner more efficiently with state housing...
NCSHA Washington Report | March 17, 2023
The most visible fallout from the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank affecting affordable housing so far has been local. SVB reportedly had provided $2.7 billion to finance...
NCSHA Washington Report | March 10, 2023
You could be forgiven for experiencing a bout of optimism about affordable housing’s relevance as a matter of national policy after this week in Washington. President Biden’s budget...
NCSHA Washington Report | March 3, 2023
Some of the most innovative ideas in affordable housing are pushing the system to provide a more level field for everybody involved and affected. Some of the remarkable people doing the...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 24, 2023
What’s old is new again, sometimes, in housing finance. Allowing renters to improve their credit scores based on their timely rent payments is a timely example. As Michael Stegman and Kelly...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 17, 2023
The Treasury Department reported this week that state and local governments had committed, through the third quarter of last year, more than $14 billion to “nearly 1,800 housing...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 10, 2023
Rafael Cestero, CEO of the Community Preservation Corporation, which has financed more than 220,000 affordable apartments in New York and elsewhere, recently articulated a rising sentiment among...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 3, 2023
Even as President Biden announced on Monday that the federal government will end in May the broad national and public health emergency declarations related to Covid-19, the contours of the...
