Washington Report
NCSHA Washington Report | September 18, 2020
The West Coast wildfires have already burned nearly five million acres, an area almost the size of Rhode Island and Connecticut combined, and forced tens of thousands from their...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 11, 2020
There’s plenty of evidence the housing market is healing, if not healthy already. Yet on the other side of just about every positive sign is a worrisome signal. Home mortgage forbearances...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 28, 2020
Back in 2016, Freddie Mac economist David Beckitt warned, “The economic losses and social disruption [of rising sea levels] may happen gradually, but they are likely to be greater in total than...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 21, 2020
State housing finance agencies emerged as central national players in affordable housing during the 1980s ― reflecting the federalism of the Reagan Revolution and the federal retrenchment it...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 14, 2020
Over the past few weeks, millions on Twitter have received, and retweeted to millions more, a series of messages from one of the service’s most powerful and prolific accounts warning of the...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 7, 2020
For decades, state housing finance agencies have stepped up as first housing assistance responders to disasters and emergencies. From sudden hurricanes, floods, and wildfires to sustained...
NCSHA Washington Report | July 31, 2020
“Interest in housing as a determinant of health has fluctuated in response to housing-related infectious disease outbreaks (e.g., cholera in New York City in the 1830s), social unrest and class...
NCSHA Washington Report | July 24, 2020
When America experiences turbulence, the subject of suburbs gets contested — and complicated. The urban unrest of the 1960s led to decades of “white flight” from cities to suburbs that...
NCSHA Washington Report | July 17, 2020
Congress has a huge, hard job ahead over the next few weeks to craft an economic stimulus bill both parties and the White House will accept in the face of national needs that far exceed...
