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Emergency Housing Assistance Updates

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NCSHA Recommended Practices in Housing Credit Administration

To strengthen Housing Credit administration and continue to merit and maintain congressional confidence in it, states have developed through NCSHA recommended practices in Housing Credit administration. These practices—created by states for states—not only help states meet their responsibilities but also preserve, to the maximum practical extent, the individual state flexibility that is at the heart of the Housing Credit program and its great success.

State HFA Factbook

Each year, NCSHA conducts a comprehensive survey of HFA program activity and compiles it in the State HFA Factbook. This information supports NCSHA's advocacy within Congress, the Administration, and the numerous federal agencies concerned with housing by providing hard evidence of HFA program results and successes. The Factbook also helps HFAs to compare their programs and operations to those of other HFAs and to learn from one another.

Resources on McKinney-Vento Title V

Set of resources related to the McKinney-Vento Act, which gives nonprofit organizations and state and local governments an effective right of first refusal to acquire at no cost surplus federal properties — including office buildings — to facilitate their redevelopment as affordable apartments.

Analysis: The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law — Implications for Affordable Housing

NCSHA commissioned UpLook Advisors to perform a high-level assessment of the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s implications for housing. The analysis highlights a number of new and existing...

Report: Filling Funding Gaps — How State Agencies Are Moving to Meet a Growing Threat to Affordable Housing

On September 20, 2022, NCSHA released this report, produced by Abt Associates, documenting the actions state housing finance agencies are taking to meet the growing threat to affordable housing from unprecedented cost increases in labor, materials, and financing.

Homeownership Assistance Fund Directory

The Homeowner Assistance Fund (HAF) is a $9.961 billion federal program to help households who are behind on their mortgages and other housing-related expenses due to the impacts of COVID-19. HAF provides funding to states, tribes, territories, and the District of Columbia to assist these homeowners. This directory presents key components of individual state HAF programs. To find a program in your area, visit the Homeownership Assistance Fund Program page.

Lessons from Eight States Regarding Factors That Have Contributed to States’ ERA1 Spending Rates

In this report prepared for NCSHA, Abt Associates examined states’ Emergency Rental Assistance spending rates and factors that have affected those rates. In July 2021, Abt interviewed ERA program staff from eight states selected to reflect programs that differed in several ways, including in geographic and population diversity, the sizes of the ERA1 allocations they received, and their ERA1 spending rates as of May 2021.

Analysis of Models for Assessing Rental Assistance Need

In this report prepared for NCSHA, Abt Associates presents an analysis of nine estimates of rental debt that were published at different times during the pandemic and compares those estimates to the congressional appropriations and allocations for the Emergency Rental Assistance Programs, ERA1 and ERA2.

Ten Steps for Accelerating Emergency Rental Assistance

State and local administrators of the federal Emergency Rental Assistance Program can get more relief to more renters more quickly by adopting proven practices. NCSHA encourages all ERAP grantees to adopt the practices compiled in this document.

Accelerating the Utilization of Emergency Rental Assistance: NCSHA Recommendations

This paper consolidates the various recommendations NCSHA has made to the Administration on how it could modify its guidance to better facilitate rapid deployment of Emergency Rental Assistance program funds to eligible households and their landlords and utility providers.