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 15, 2024
Every presidential administration since Ronald Reagan’s has variously decried the role of regulations in impeding housing construction and increasing housing costs for lower-income...
NCSHA Washington Report | November 1, 2024
January 20, 2026 Dear President ________: Thank you for establishing housing affordability as one of your highest priorities in the first year of your term, and congratulations on the steps...
NCSHA Washington Report | October 25, 2024
The home stretch of the presidential campaign has largely crowded out discussion of what the Congress, currently on recess, will have to do when it returns to Washington for a lame-duck session in...
NCSHA Washington Report | October 18, 2024
Pundits of various stripes coined memorable, somewhat ominous phrases to describe the apparent transformations in American life that seemed to be unfolding with astonishing speed during the early...
NCSHA Washington Report | October 11, 2024
The last two weeks have eliminated any doubt that the country’s capacity to respond to natural disasters has reached a breaking point. On October 2, as bodies were still being recovered in...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 26, 2024
Heading into NCSHA’s Annual Conference & Showplace next week, back by popular demand and with apologies to the Harper’s Index, a few handfuls of housing and other facts for the...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 20, 2024
Even before the Federal Reserve began, in March 2022, to hike interest rates repeatedly to tame inflation, housing economists and financiers knew the likely result would be bad for affordability. A...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 13, 2024
Wynne Senior Residences in West Philadelphia is at once exceptional and commonplace, and both are compliments. Exceptional because the conversion of an old theater and ballroom a few years ago...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 6, 2024
A couple of weeks ago, HUD commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974. Even among housing scholars, the law seems underappreciated, generating less...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 23, 2024
Coming out of their conventions, the Trump and Harris campaigns have put forward summaries of their economic proposals but scant detail on how all the elements of their domestic agendas would fit...
