Washington Report
NCSHA Washington Report | March 24, 2023
We’re very pleased to announce the HFA1 Affordable Homeownership Lender Toolkit, a new online resource that will enable home mortgage lenders to partner more efficiently with state housing...
NCSHA Washington Report | March 17, 2023
The most visible fallout from the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank affecting affordable housing so far has been local. SVB reportedly had provided $2.7 billion to finance...
NCSHA Washington Report | March 10, 2023
You could be forgiven for experiencing a bout of optimism about affordable housing’s relevance as a matter of national policy after this week in Washington. President Biden’s budget...
NCSHA Washington Report | March 3, 2023
Some of the most innovative ideas in affordable housing are pushing the system to provide a more level field for everybody involved and affected. Some of the remarkable people doing the...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 24, 2023
What’s old is new again, sometimes, in housing finance. Allowing renters to improve their credit scores based on their timely rent payments is a timely example. As Michael Stegman and Kelly...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 17, 2023
The Treasury Department reported this week that state and local governments had committed, through the third quarter of last year, more than $14 billion to “nearly 1,800 housing...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 10, 2023
Rafael Cestero, CEO of the Community Preservation Corporation, which has financed more than 220,000 affordable apartments in New York and elsewhere, recently articulated a rising sentiment among...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 3, 2023
Even as President Biden announced on Monday that the federal government will end in May the broad national and public health emergency declarations related to Covid-19, the contours of the...
NCSHA Washington Report | January 27, 2023
The disappointment expressed by both landlord groups and renter advocates at the Biden – Harris Administration’s announcement this week of new federal initiatives intended...
