Washington Report
NCSHA Washington Report | January 7, 2022
State housing finance agencies, always the vanguard of financing for affordable homeownership opportunities and rental apartment properties for low-income people, also will be busy this year...
NCSHA Washington Report | December 17, 2021
Every day, working people of modest means make entirely rational decisions to decline a raise, defer training, or turn down a better job because the higher income they would earn as a result...
NCSHA Washington Report | December 10, 2021
If you were a shareholder in the enterprise that was the largest insurer of mortgages in the world, supported almost 20 percent of home purchases in the United States today, and served double the...
NCSHA Washington Report | December 3, 2021
The Treasury Department will soon announce the results of its first cut at right-sizing amounts of federal emergency rental assistance funds among the more than 450 state, county, local, and...
NCSHA Washington Report | November 19, 2021
Data from several new reports illustrate a remarkable resilience among affordable rental properties and landlords more than 18 months into the pandemic. CohnReznick’s latest biennial...
NCSHA Washington Report | November 12, 2021
While the short-term economic effects of the $1 trillion infrastructure bill President Biden plans to sign Monday are a subject of debate, most analysts expect the Infrastructure Investment and...
NCSHA Washington Report | November 5, 2021
Candidate Biden promised to “close loopholes that would allow [nonbank financial institutions] to avoid lending and investing in all of the communities they serve.” President Biden’s White...
NCSHA Washington Report | October 29, 2021
The “Build Back Better” bill congressional Democrats plan to pass soon, which the White House says contains “the single largest and most comprehensive investment in affordable housing in...
NCSHA Washington Report | October 22, 2021
Planning edicts from federal regulators tend to get bureaucratic and interest group wheels spinning without necessarily leading to any actual movement. The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s...
