Washington Report
NCSHA Washington Report | October 24, 2025
The Council of Large Public Housing Authorities, pointing to “chronic disinvestment and aging developments” and “evidence that the unmet capital needs in public housing are growing,” says...
NCSHA Washington Report | October 17, 2025
Coming at a time when housing affordability is a higher priority for more Americans than ever, the ROAD to Housing Act is the most wide-ranging housing bill to pass the Senate in memory. It...
NCSHA Washington Report | October 2, 2025
Our weekly newsletter is arriving a day early due to NCSHA’s Annual Conference starting this weekend. Take the federal government seriously with respect to what it says it expects to be the...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 26, 2025
Budget brinksmanship has become as regular an autumn tradition in Washington as back-to-school, but with a federal government shutdown now five days away, and neither party in any mood to...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 19, 2025
Several apartment projects promising more than 200 affordable homes that received state and federal funding last fall are struggling to break ground on schedule across one New England state. A...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 12, 2025
The issue of “housing finance reform,” meaning how the federal government’s conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which marked 17 years Monday, might end, or at least evolve, is a...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 5, 2025
Our annual September homage to the Harper’s Index is a “housing emergency” edition. Median age of a first-time home buyer last year: 38 Median age in 2020: 32 Price per square foot of...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 22, 2025
For the second time in five years, efforts by the federal bank regulators, under three different administrations, to modernize the regulations that implement the Community Reinvestment Act have...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 15, 2025
The remarkable increase in states’ efforts to address housing affordability challenges includes new financial incentives to build homes for the mounting numbers of people who earn too much to...
