Washington Report
NCSHA Washington Report | May 5, 2023
It was an honor to be in Harrisburg this week for the 50th anniversary celebration of the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency, in no small part because Pennsylvanians invented the very idea of a...
NCSHA Washington Report | April 28, 2023
The Federal Housing Finance Agency this week began belatedly to respond to the rising tide of criticism over the agency’s plan to increase the upfront fees on mortgages backed by Fannie Mae and...
NCSHA Washington Report | April 21, 2023
One of the reasons the Fair Housing Act, sometimes called the “last plank” of the civil rights movement, has been perhaps the hardest of all to put in place is because it not only bars...
NCSHA Washington Report | April 14, 2023
Two new reports together produce a current picture of an historic level of home improvement activity in the U.S. alongside rapidly worsening repair needs for millions of low-income...
NCSHA Washington Report | April 7, 2023
Even those of us who don’t object in principle to the tax system serving as both an instrument of social policy and a mechanism for revenue collection can be amazed by just how much of the...
NCSHA Washington Report | March 24, 2023
We’re very pleased to announce the HFA1 Affordable Homeownership Lender Toolkit, a new online resource that will enable home mortgage lenders to partner more efficiently with state housing...
NCSHA Washington Report | March 17, 2023
The most visible fallout from the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank affecting affordable housing so far has been local. SVB reportedly had provided $2.7 billion to finance...
NCSHA Washington Report | March 10, 2023
You could be forgiven for experiencing a bout of optimism about affordable housing’s relevance as a matter of national policy after this week in Washington. President Biden’s budget...
NCSHA Washington Report | March 3, 2023
Some of the most innovative ideas in affordable housing are pushing the system to provide a more level field for everybody involved and affected. Some of the remarkable people doing the...
