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Emergency Housing Assistance Updates

2021 Calendar Year Resident Population Figures

IRS Notice 2021-19, provides resident population figures necessary to determine the 2021 private activity bond volume cap and the population-based component of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit ceiling.

Chart: State HFA PBCA Portfolio

Below is NCSHA's chart detailing state Housing Finance Agencies (HFAs) serving as Performance-Based Contract Administrators (PBCAs) and their active portfolios. 33 state Housing Finance Agencies (HFAs) serve as PBCAs.

Administration of the Federal Emergency Rental Assistance Program: Considerations for State Agencies

To help states design Emergency Rental Assistance programs and deploy the available funds, NCSHA worked with Abt Associates to develop this guidance document. This guidance is intended to help states...

Featured ERA Program: Idaho Housing and Finance Association’s Housing Preservation

IHFA's Housing Preservation Program was created to assist households with an inability to pay rent or utilities due to a COVID-19 related financial hardship. Idahoans, if you or your renter is unable to pay rent or utilities because of the COVID-19 pandemic or the related economic crisis, short-term emergency assistance may be available.

NCSHA Letter to Treasury with Policy Recommendations for Homeowner Assistance Fund

On March 12, 2021, NCSHA sent this letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen outlining our policy recommendations for implementing the Homeowner Assistance Fund (HAF), included in the American Rescue Plan. In the letter, NCSHA makes three different types of suggestions 1) mission-critical items that must be included in whatever mechanism Treasury uses to disburse HAF funds to make the program operable; 2) issues that are necessary for Treasury to clarify or resolve for the programs to launch promptly; 3) steps Treasury can take when administering the program help ensure that assistance is delivered promptly and effectively.

NCSHA List of HFAs Administering HTF from 2016 to Present

Below is NCSHA's list of HFA's Administering the National Housing Trust Fund (HTF) from 2016 to present.

American Rescue Plan Provisions Pertaining to the Homeowner Assistance Fund

This document contains the legislative language in the American Rescue Plan Act, enacted on March 11, 2021, that authorizes the Homeowner Assistance Fund.

NCSHA Summary of Homeowner Assistance Fund

This summary provides the details of the Homeowner Assistance Fund included in the American Rescue Plan Act, enacted on March 11, 2021.

State Housing Finance Agencies: At the Center of the Affordable Housing System

The coronavirus pandemic has caused unique hardships for millions of homeowners and renters across the country. As federal and state governments implement policies and programs to help struggling Americans stay in their homes, state housing finance agencies have become more important than at any other time in their history to the system’s ability to make affordable housing available in America. This report highlights how.

NCSHA Comment Letter Asks FHFA to Address Racial Justice, HFA Lending in Affordable Housing Goals

On February 28, 2021, NCSHA provided these comments to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) in response to its Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Enterprise Housing Goals, urging FHFA to establish robust goals that push Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) to do as much responsible affordable lending as possible and to serve underserved markets better. In the letter, NCSHA also recommends that FHFA encourage the Enterprises to increase lending to people of color and address impediments to increased Enterprise support for HFA affordable housing lending.