Washington Report
NCSHA Washington Report | March 20, 2020
The unprecedented global COVID-19 pandemic that has become an unprecedented national emergency may ultimately affect affordable housing needs and systems in more profound ways than the financial...
NCSHA Washington Report | March 6, 2020
Groundbreakings for new affordable housing are all about optimism and future possibilities. One in Northwest Washington, DC, today triggered a wider range of emotions, because the development of...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 28, 2020
Economists of all ideological stripes have tended to favor policies aimed at people over those that target places. This may be changing, as the geography of prosperity in...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 21, 2020
An important, if underappreciated, function of Congress is using its committees as venues for exploring emerging issues on which federal action may, or may not, be warranted. A good example...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 14, 2020
In the years after World War II, an average of one in five Americans moved every year. Last November, the Census Bureau reported the share had fallen below 10 percent for the first...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 7, 2020
When we left our spin through state HFA history at the end of the 1960s, the innovation of a few states seemed poised to sweep the country. In fact, 18 more states created HFAs between 1968...
NCSHA Washington Report | January 31, 2020
When President Trump established the White House Council on Eliminating Barriers to Affordable Housing Development by executive order last summer, we recalled that the dozen...
NCSHA Washington Report | January 24, 2020
The laser focus of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s powerful regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, on moving the companies out of federal conservatorship continues to put...
NCSHA Washington Report | January 10, 2020
One of the more positive trends of the 2010s that should accelerate in the years ahead is the interest of major health care industry players in pitching in on the housing affordability...
