Washington Report
NCSHA Washington Report | March 22, 2024
Housing finance agencies have always acted as “gap fillers”: providers of the necessary capital to fund the difference between what it costs — under current conditions — to buy or build...
NCSHA Washington Report | March 15, 2024
No part of the country offers more compelling proof that solving housing affordability is a top priority for policymakers of every political persuasion than the Mountain West. From blue...
NCSHA Washington Report | March 1, 2024
This week the White House made its seventh major announcement since September 2021 of multiple steps the administration is taking through various federal departments to increase home building and...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 23, 2024
In early 1974, the burgeoning national network of the 27 state housing finance agencies in existence at the time was at a crossroads. Moody’s had recently changed its methodology for rating...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 16, 2024
As usual by around this time of year, most of the country’s governors have given their annual state of the state addresses, and many have submitted their budget proposals to their state...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 9, 2024
Nobody disagrees that the Low Income Housing Tax Credit is “the most important resource for creating affordable housing in the United States today.” The Housing Credit isn’t perfect —...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 2, 2024
Regrettably, if predictably, press coverage of the House’s passage of the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act by a 357–70 vote this week, containing a major expansion of the...
NCSHA Washington Report | January 26, 2024
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives: Your opportunity to vote, potentially next week, for or against the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act is — and is not — about a...
NCSHA Washington Report | January 19, 2024
We recently highlighted three federal regulations expected this year that have high stakes for housing affordability. The Supreme Court also could act on several cases with far-reaching impacts...
