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 22, 2022
NCSHA’s Greg Zagorski and I were pleased to speak virtually this week with officials from 10 federal agencies and state housing and energy agency stakeholders in manufactured housing about...
NCSHA Washington Report | April 15, 2022
An extraordinary opportunity for immediate federal support to stem surging housing costs we first flagged in February is now in clearer focus as a result of a new NCSHA survey and webpage online...
NCSHA Washington Report | April 8, 2022
Dozens of cities across the U.S. are clearing encampments of unhoused people and “pushing other strict measures to address homelessness that would have been unheard of a few years ago,”...
NCSHA Washington Report | April 1, 2022
Today an estimated 2.4 million homeowners will start paying more for their flood insurance. For 330,000 of them, the increases will be significant, and since many live in the same coastal areas,...
NCSHA Washington Report | March 25, 2022
Sarah Bloom Raskin’s withdrawal last week of her nomination to become vice chair of the Federal Reserve due to Senate Banking Committee Republicans’ and Senator Manchin’s objections to...
NCSHA Washington Report | March 11, 2022
In passing a bill to fund the federal government’s current fiscal year five months late, Congress this week also reauthorized an essential law for the first time in almost a decade: the...
NCSHA Washington Report | March 4, 2022
Everyone in housing has their sights on the need for more new construction to help slow out-of-control costs. Coming into focus for many is an equally immediate need — and arguably more...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 25, 2022
Before the pandemic, federal social safety net programs typically came with significant application requirements designed to deter con artists seeking to rip off the taxpayers and deprive...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 11, 2022
The real estate story of the moment is single-family built-to-rent (BTR), which is actually a bunch of stories wrapped up in one. A Wall Street story. Hunter Housing Economics projected $40...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 4, 2022
We were disappointed the Treasury Department’s final rules for the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds program missed a major opportunity we recommended to optimize the funds for affordable...
