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 | 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...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 16, 2024
Testifying at a House subcommittee hearing last month, attorney Paul Compton, who served as HUD General Counsel in the Trump Administration, called attention to federal regulations’ complicity in...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 2, 2024
It was inspiring to spend a day this week in Syracuse with a group of state and local housing and economic development officials who were strategizing about how the six-county region known as...
NCSHA Washington Report | July 26, 2024
The emergence of high housing costs as a central issue in a presidential election, arguably for the first time ever, led both campaigns to make comments recently that perplexed many economists and...
NCSHA Washington Report | July 12, 2024
Housing analysts tend to cite sweeping themes and broad trends to make their arguments. People who do housing for a living typically talk in more concrete terms. Here’s what some of the smartest...
Washington Report | June 28, 2024
About five years ago — before Covid — encampments of unhoused people began appearing around the country “in numbers not seen in almost a century.” Cities characterized as “liberal” as...
