Washington Report
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...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 8, 2025
State-level leadership on solving housing affordability challenges shows no signs of slowing, even as economic uncertainty and fiscal pressures threaten to undercut some of the tremendous...
NCSHA Washington Report | August 1, 2025
Bipartisan momentum on housing affordability building for several years in the U.S. Senate has resulted in a remarkably productive summer in a legislative body better known recently for its...
NCSHA Washington Report | July 18, 2025
On Wednesday, the Republican chairman of the subcommittee in the House of Representatives responsible for housing issues, Representative Mike Flood of Nebraska, held a hearing on the HOME housing...
NCSHA Washington Report | July 11, 2025
Republican and Democratic governors, federal officials, and even the U.S. Supreme Court are moving in a similar direction on a problem they all agree needs fixing: well-intentioned but poorly...
NCSHA Washington Report | June 20, 2025
In April, Representative Steve Womack (R-AR) hosted HUD Secretary Scott Turner in his northwest Arkansas district, where the Secretary was briefed on McAuley Place, which will provide homes for...
