Washington Report
NCSHA Washington Report | December 9, 2022
Covid-19 and rising trade tensions with China have ushered in a surprising, bipartisan embrace of a national “industrial policy,” the idea that government should support industries deemed...
NCSHA Washington Report | December 2, 2022
Unsung efforts by policymakers and mortgage industry players, including state HFAs, to keep a lid on home foreclosures and mortgage delinquencies during Covid’s worst periods were highly...
NCSHA Washington Report | November 18, 2022
At a White House meeting this week, a senior administration official told a group of housing industry representatives that the keys to success in securing more federal funds for affordable home...
NCSHA Washington Report | November 4, 2022
The congressional session scheduled to start with a Senate roll call vote the evening of November 14 will mark the 14th lame duck legislative period in the last 15 Congresses. Like most of them,...
NCSHA Washington Report | October 21, 2022
The nation’s state housing finance agencies and their business and community partners will convene in Houston starting this weekend for NCSHA’s first in-person annual conference in three...
NCSHA Washington Report | October 14, 2022
The upshot of last week’s two announcements by the Treasury Department and IRS regarding the Housing Credit program is that a number of very good things for low-income renters and apartment...
NCSHA Washington Report | October 7, 2022
The first comprehensive federal review of the Federal Home Loan Bank system is officially underway, with the completion this week of three days of public testimony from interested parties in...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 30, 2022
Comments submitted to HUD this week revealed deep opposition throughout the affordable housing industry to the department’s high-risk proposal to radically restructure the long-running...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 23, 2022
We try to stay in our lane here at Washington Report, which is plenty wide, with housing affordability and supply among the central social and economic challenges facing our country and state...
