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Emergency Housing Assistance Updates

September 2018 GAO Report on Housing Credit Development Costs

GAO compiled and analyzed a database of costs and characteristics for 1,849 projects completed in 2011–2015 (the most recent data available when compiled) from 12 allocating agencies in 10 states. The agencies span five regions and accounted for about half of the Housing Credits available for award in 2015. GAO also reviewed the most recent allocating plans and related documents for 57 allocating agencies and reviewed federal requirements.

Council of Development Finance Agencies | 2017 Annual Volume Cap Report

Private activity bond (PAB) issuance increased at least nine percent from 2016 to 2017, according to the Council of Development Finance Agencies’ (CDFA) latest Annual Volume Cap...

NCSHA Comments on GAO Report on Housing Credit Development Costs

NCSHA issued the following letter in response to the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s draft report on Housing Credit development costs, “Low Income Housing Tax Credit: Improved Data and Oversight Would Strengthen Cost Assessment and Fraud Risk Management.”

Development Costs and Cost Drivers in the Housing Credit Program

The Low Income Housing Tax Credit (Housing Credit) is the most important public policy that directly supports the development of desperately needed rental apartments lower-income households can...

Housing Mobility Demonstration National Organization Letter of Support

This letter was sent to the Chairs, Vice Chair, and Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and the Senate Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing, Development and Related Agencies expressing support for funding of the Housing Choice Voucher Mobility Demonstration, signed by thirty organizations.

NCSHA Statement to House Financial Services Committee on GSE Reform Hearing

NCSHA's statement to the House Financial Services Committee for the Committee's hearing “A Failure to Act: How a Decade Without GSE Reform Has Once Again Put Taxpayers at Risk” held on September 6, 2018

GSE Reform Coalition Letter

Open letter addressed to the Administration and Congress titled, “A Defining Moment for Housing Finance: The Need to Preserve Access and Affordability,” signed by twenty nine agencies of the GSE Reform Coalition.

NCSHA Issues Statement for House Hearing on Multifamily Housing Regulatory Costs

NCSHA issued the following statement as the House Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance began a hearing on “The Cost of Regulation on Affordable Multifamily Development” on September 5, 2018.

S. 3231 Task Force on the Impact of Affordable Housing Crisis Act

Senator Young’s bill, the Task Force on the Impact of Affordable Housing Crisis Act, establishes an 18-member task force charged with evaluating and quantifying the impact of affordable housing on other government programs and making recommendations to Congress on how to use affordable housing to improve the effectiveness of other federal programs and improve life outcomes.

S. 3364 First-Time HomeBuyer Credit Act of 2018

Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Wyden (D-OR) introduced the First-Time Homebuyer Credit Act of 2018, S. 3364, which would create a refundable first-time homebuyer tax credit equal to 2.5 percent of the home purchase price up a maximum of $10,000. The credit would phase out for homes selling for $600,000 to $700,000. The credit would also phase out for individual taxpayers with incomes between $80,000 and $100,000 and joint taxpayers with incomes between $160,000 and $180,000.