On October 23, 2021, the Campaign for Housing and Community Development Funding, of which NCSHA is a member, sent this letter to congressional leadership urging them to ensure funding for critical housing and community development investments in the Build Back Better Act at the highest levels possible. View Document […]
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On October 20, 2021, the Underserved Mortgage Markets Coalition, of which NCSHA is a member, sent this letter to Federal Housing Finance Agency Acting Director Sandra Thompson expressing concerns about Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s 2022‒24 Duty to Serve plans. View Letter to Director Thompson Underserved Mortgage Markets Coalition Press Release on Duty to Serve […]
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On October 18, 2021, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published Internal Revenue Bulletin 2021-42, which includes Revenue Procedure 2021-44, providing the Housing Credit National Pool amounts for qualified states for calendar year 2021. Twenty-nine states received unused Housing Credit carryovers from the National Pool. View Document […]
On October 14, 2021, 36 Democratic Senators sent this letter to President Biden, House Speaker Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Schumer asking them to support comprehensive, robust housing funding in legislation to enact President Biden’s Build Back Better plan. View Document […]
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On October 13, 2021, NCSHA and 17 other organizations sent this letter to congressional leadership to advocate for HOME funding being included in the Build Back Better Act. View Document […]
The Urban Institute has compiled a dataset that includes homeowners’ demographic and income characteristics and breakdowns foreclosure risk at the county level. The Urban Institute published the data with the intention of helping policymakers best target their Homeowner Assistance Fund resources. View Dataset […]
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This September 30 letter from NCSHA and 19 other members of the National Housing Conference urges House and Senate Democratic leadership and the Chairmen of the tax-writing committees to maintain provisions related to the Housing Credit and Neighborhood Homes Credit in final reconciliation legislation. View Document […]
NCSHA, along with other major national organizations representing grantees — the American Public Human Services Association, Council of State Community Development Agencies, National American Indian Housing Council, National Association of Counties, National Community Development Association, and National League of Cities — sent this September 29, 2021, letter to Treasury providing comments on the reallocation of […]
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HFAs share how they’ve innovated to engage employees working from home, boost staff morale, implement a student loan debt program designed to improve employees’ financial well being, and make their agency cultures more diverse. DISCUSSION LEADER Phaedra Stoger, Operations Associate/Membership | National Council of State Housing Agencies PARTICIPANTS Myra Carmona, Vice President of Talent and […]
