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Looking for talking points or FAQs to prepare for a meeting on Capitol Hill? A copy of NCSHA’s annual Factbook? Housing research and analysis? A presentation from a recent conference to share with a colleague? A reference guide for Housing Credit, HOME, MRBs, or Section 8 program administration? You’ve come to the right place: The NCSHA Resource Center is your source for this important information and much more. Refer to the right sidebar to see resource categories or use the search bar to search resources by topic.

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Emergency Housing Assistance Updates

Opportunity Zone Fund Directory

The Opportunity Zone Fund Directory is a compilation of publicly-announced funds formed to attract investment in Opportunity Zones (OZs). NCSHA is tracking only multi-project OZ funds. To learn...

Project-Based Section 8 Rental Assistance FAQs

HOME Investment Partnerships Program FAQs

The HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) provides grants to state and local governments to produce affordable housing for low‐income families. States and localities target flexible HOME funds to the particular needs of their communities.

Tax-Exempt Housing Bonds FAQs

What are Housing Bonds? | Are Housing Bonds one of the original uses of PAB authority? | How do HFAs use Housing Bonds? | How much bond authority do states have? | What restrictions exist on the use of Housing Bonds? | Why should Congress protect Housing Bonds? | Why should Congress protect Housing Bonds? | What is the economic impact of Housing Bonds? | Would other tools for financing affordable housing be more efficient? | What does this program cost?

Housing Credit Program FAQs

The Low Income Housing Tax Credit (Housing Credit) is a federal tax credit created by President Reagan and Congress in the Tax Reform Act of 1986 designed to encourage private sector investment in the new construction, acquisition, and rehabilitation of rental housing affordable to low-income households. Over the last three decades, the Housing Credit has become the most successful affordable rental housing production program in history.

Housing Trust Fund FAQs

What is the Housing Trust Fund? | Whom does HTF serve? | Who administers HTF? |How much funding is provided through HTF annually? | What should Congress do to improve HTF?

Neighborhood Homes Investment Act FAQs

What is the Neighborhood Homes Investment Act? | Where will the NHIA tax credit be used? | What kind of housing would be improved or built with the NHIA tax credit? | Whom does the NHIA tax credit serve? | Why is the NHIA tax credit necessary? | Will the Neighborhood Homes Investment Act cause gentrification? | How would the NHIA tax credit work? | How will the NHIA tax credit be allocated to the states? | Who will administer the NHIA tax credit? | Who will oversee administration of the NHIA tax credit?| What is the projected impact of the NHIA tax credit? | Would the NHIA tax credit leverage other funding?| Would the private sector finance affordable housing without an incentive like the NHIA tax credit? | Who is supporting the NHIA tax credit?

Summary: Affordable Housing Bond Enhancement Act

This document summarizes the Affordable Housing Bond Enhancement Act, which was introduced by Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) on June 6, 2023. The bill enacts several of NCSHA’s long-standing priorities for strengthening the Mortgage Revenue Bond and Mortgage Credit Certificate programs.

FHA-HFA Multifamily Loan Risk-Sharing Program FAQs

Congress established the Federal Housing Agency (FHA) – Housing Finance Agency (HFA) Multifamily Risk-Sharing program in 1992 to increase and speed up FHA’s multifamily mortgage production. The FHA-HFA Risk-Sharing program allows HFAs that meet rigorous financial standards to underwrite FHA multifamily loans in return for sharing the risk of losses on those loans.

Coalition Letter to Biden Administration to Extend Indefinitely Federal Financing Bank Funding for FHA Multifamily Risk-Sharing Mortgages

NCSHA and several other leading affordable housing groups signed this February 16, 2024, letter urging the Biden Administration to extend indefinitely the Federal Financing Bank (FFB) funding for FHA multifamily risk-sharing mortgages (FFB Risk-Sharing program). The FFB Risk-Sharing program provides affordable mortgage capital to housing finance agencies to help them finance the production and preservation of affordable rental housing. The program’s current authority expires October 1, 2024.