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Emergency Housing Assistance Updates

Biden’s FY 2022 Budget Request

On May 28, 2021, the Biden Administration submitted to Congress the President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2022. The budget request totals $6 trillion and outlines the Biden’s Administration’s fiscal priorities, including for HUD and USDA housing programs.

NCSHA Comments on Treasury and IRS 2021-2022 Priority Guidance Plan

On May 28, 2021, NCSHA provided these comments to the Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service on guidance projects the agencies should include in their 2021-2022 Priority Guidance Plan. The annual Priority Guidance Plan sets forth the tax issues Treasury and IRS intend to address through regulations, revenue rulings, revenue procedures, notices, and other published administrative guidance.

Featured ERA Program: DSHA’s Delaware Housing Assistance Program (DEHAP)

If you are a renter in Delaware who is facing financial hardship as a result of the pandemic, you may qualify for rental assistance from DSHA’s Delaware Housing Assistance Program (DEHAP). The program provides emergency housing assistance to renters affected by shutdowns, closures, layoffs, reduced work hours, unpaid leave or financial hardship related to the COVID-19 health crisis.

Members of Congress, HUD Secretary Make the Case for Housing Is Infrastructure in Hearings

The Senate Finance Committee, House Ways and Means Committee, and Senate Banking Committee all held hearings the week of May 17 on investing in the nation’s infrastructure. During the hearings, key...

Opportunity Zones | Articles and Background Materials

Access recent Opportunity Zones articles curated by NCSHA staff.

Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2021: Video Series

In this video series, Ayrianne Parks, Senior Director of Public Policy at Enterprise, and Jennifer Schwartz, Director of Tax and Housing Advocacy at NCSHA, provide an overview of each of the provisions in the Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act (AHCIA) of 2021 (S. 1136 and H.R. 2573).

NCSHA Infrastructure Priorities Memo

This memorandum outlines NCSHA’s top legislative priorities for 2021 federal infrastructure legislation.

Featured ERA Program: Emergency Rental Assistance Alabama

LANDLORDS: Are some of your tenants behind on their rent? | RENTERS: Can’t pay rent or utility bills? >> Emergency Rental Assistance Alabama can help. COVID-19 has affected residents across the state. AHFA has emergency funds available to help Alabama renters pay rent and utility bills (including past due rent and utilities).

HUD FAQs on Emergency Rental Assistance for Public Housing, Housing Choice Voucher Program Participants

On May 12, 2021, the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Public and Indian Housing published these Frequently Asked Questions on use of funds from the Treasury Department’s Emergency Rental Assistance program to assist participants in the public housing and Housing Choice Voucher programs.

Best Practices for HFA Mortgage Design: Lessons Learned from HHF and CRF Presentation

This presentation summarizes the results of NCSHA’s survey of HFAs that administered the federal Hardest Hit Fund (HHF) program in the aftermath of the Great Recession or administered short-term emergency homeowner assistance programs in 2020 with federal Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF). It focuses on those survey questions pertaining to mortgage assistance program design and delivery. The purpose of this presentation to help inform HFAs and other administrators’ efforts to develop their Homeowner Assistance Fund programs (HAF).