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Emergency Housing Assistance Updates

ACTION Letter to President, Congressional Leadership in Support of Housing Credit Production Provisions in Build Back Better Act

This October 25, 2021, letter from 428 Housing Credit stakeholders and members of the ACTION Campaign to President Biden, Speaker Pelosi, and Majority Leader Schumer urges them to preserve the Housing Credit production provisions in the final Build Back Better reconciliation legislation.

NCSHA Letter to FHFA on GSE Equitable Housing Finance Plans

On October 25, 2021, NCSHA submitted this letter to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) on its directive requiring the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to “prepare and implement three-year Equitable Housing Finance Plans.” In the letter, NCSHA expresses its strong support for FHFA’s directive and outlines two specific opportunities for GSE partnerships with HFAs that can help the GSEs better serve minority communities: expanding GSE financing through HFA homeownership programs, including their special HFA products, and piloting acquisition, development, and construction financing and small-dollar mortgage financing through HFAs.

CHCDF Letter to Congress on the Build Back Better Act

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.

HOME Coalition Letter Urging Congressional Leadership to Support HOME Funding in the Build Back Better Act

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.

Joint Letter Supporting the Housing Credit and Neighborhood Homes Credit in Reconciliation Legislation

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...

Joint Letter to Treasury on ERA 1 Reallocation

NCSHA, along with other major national organizations representing grantees — the Council of State Community Development Agencies, National American Indian Housing Council, National Association of Counties, National League of Cities, and National Community Development Association — sent this September 29, 2021, letter to Treasury providing comments on the reallocation of Emergency Rental Assistance funding enacted under the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (ERA 1).

NCSHA Letter Supporting House Committees’ Reconciliation Legislation

This September 17, 2021, letter to House and Senate leadership underscores NCSHA’s support for the housing provisions contained in the reconciliation legislation reported by the House Ways and Means Committee and Financial Services Committee and encourages leadership to keep these provisions as close to the versions as passed by the committees as possible in final reconciliation legislation.

NCSHA Letter to Treasury on the Homeowner Assistance Fund

On September 15, 2021, NCSHA sent this letter to the U.S. Department of Treasury requesting clarification in several areas that would allow Homeowner Assistance Fund (HAF) administering agencies to fully plan and prepare their programs. Guidance was requested on issues including recycling of funds to assist more homeowners, reuse of funds repaid after the program expires, tax status of benefits received through HAF, and Treasury’s reporting requirements.

ACTION Steering Committee Letter on Housing Credit Provisions in Ways and Means Reconciliation Bill

These letters from NCSHA and 22 other members of the ACTION Campaign Steering Committee to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) on September 13 and to House and Senate leadership on September 21 expresses support for Housing Credit provisions in reconciliation legislation reported by the House Ways and Means Committee.

Principles and Grantee Survey for the Emergency Rental Assistance Program Reallocation Process

NCSHA, along with all other major national organizations representing Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) program grantees—the American Public Human Services Association, National American Indian Housing Council, Council of State Community Development Agencies, National Association of Counties, National Community Development Association, and National League of Cities—provided this set of principles and proposed grantee survey to the U.S. Department of the Treasury with our joint recommendations on the process Treasury should employ for meeting the statutorily required reallocation of ERA 1 grant dollars beginning after September 30, 2021.