Washington Report
NCSHA Washington Report | March 25, 2022
Sarah Bloom Raskin’s withdrawal last week of her nomination to become vice chair of the Federal Reserve due to Senate Banking Committee Republicans’ and Senator Manchin’s objections to...
NCSHA Washington Report | March 11, 2022
In passing a bill to fund the federal government’s current fiscal year five months late, Congress this week also reauthorized an essential law for the first time in almost a decade: the...
NCSHA Washington Report | March 4, 2022
Everyone in housing has their sights on the need for more new construction to help slow out-of-control costs. Coming into focus for many is an equally immediate need — and arguably more...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 25, 2022
Before the pandemic, federal social safety net programs typically came with significant application requirements designed to deter con artists seeking to rip off the taxpayers and deprive...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 11, 2022
The real estate story of the moment is single-family built-to-rent (BTR), which is actually a bunch of stories wrapped up in one. A Wall Street story. Hunter Housing Economics projected $40...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 4, 2022
We were disappointed the Treasury Department’s final rules for the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds program missed a major opportunity we recommended to optimize the funds for affordable...
NCSHA Washington Report | January 28, 2022
This week’s HFA Institute included the annual deep dive into the latest on the housing program that has been around longer and done more good than it ever seems to get credit for: HOME. The...
NCSHA Washington Report | January 21, 2022
As Democrats in Washington weigh their options for trying to pass some of President Biden’s Build Back Better program this year, proponents of the historic housing investments in the version...
NCSHA Washington Report | January 14, 2022
Speaking virtually this week to hundreds of state HFA staff from around the country during NCSHA’s HFA Institute, HUD Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multifamily Housing Ethan Handelman...
