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 14, 2022
The upshot of last week’s two announcements by the Treasury Department and IRS regarding the Housing Credit program is that a number of very good things for low-income renters and apartment...
NCSHA Washington Report | October 7, 2022
The first comprehensive federal review of the Federal Home Loan Bank system is officially underway, with the completion this week of three days of public testimony from interested parties in...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 30, 2022
Comments submitted to HUD this week revealed deep opposition throughout the affordable housing industry to the department’s high-risk proposal to radically restructure the long-running...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 23, 2022
We try to stay in our lane here at Washington Report, which is plenty wide, with housing affordability and supply among the central social and economic challenges facing our country and state...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 16, 2022
The news that “surging housing costs are the engine driving” the latest inflation numbers wasn’t a revelation to any of us at the New Mexico Housing Summit in Albuquerque this week —...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 9, 2022
A more fluid political environment than either party expected when summer started has Democrats and Republicans in Congress especially eager to start the home stretch of campaigning sooner than...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 26, 2022
“IMMENSELY AGAINST multifamily development!” That’s apparently the subject line of an irate email message from the famous Silicon Valley venture capitalist Mark Andreeson and his wife...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 19, 2022
Neither the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) nor the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) ended up investing much in the inflation-reducing affordable housing infrastructure the nation needs, a...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 12, 2022
During the Clinton Administration, HUD, saying it had been “the poster child for inept government…plagued for years by scandal and mismanagement,” took steps to reform. One of the most...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 5, 2022
The Biden-Harris Administration has put eviction prevention reform alongside increasing supply at the center of its ambitious affordable housing agenda. On the latter, the policy path is clear...
