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NCSHA Washington Report | August 26, 2022

ā€œIMMENSELY AGAINST multifamily development!ā€ Thatā€™s apparently the subject line of an irate email message from the famous Silicon Valley venture capitalist Mark Andreeson and his wife...

NCSHA Washington Report | August 19, 2022

Neither the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) nor the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) ended up investing much in the inflation-reducing affordable housing infrastructure the nation needs, a...

NCSHA Washington Report | August 12, 2022

During the Clinton Administration, HUD, saying it had been ā€œthe poster child for inept governmentā€¦plagued for years by scandal and mismanagement,ā€ took steps to reform. One of the most...

NCSHA Washington Report | August 5, 2022

The Biden-Harris Administration has put eviction prevention reform alongside increasing supply at the center of its ambitious affordable housing agenda. On the latter, the policy path is clear...

NCSHA Washington Report | July 22, 2022

  At this weekā€™s Senate Finance Committee hearing on tax incentives for affordable housing, Oregon Housing and Community Services Executive Director Andrea Bell didnā€™t mince words,...

NCSHA Washington Report | July 15, 2022

As Covidā€™s most immediate impacts on the geography of housing demand come into clearer view, the longer-term implications remain uncertain, and hugely consequential, for regional economies and...

NCSHA Washington Report | July 8, 2022

While we were goneā€¦ The House Appropriations Committee approved funding for HUDā€™s next fiscal year thatā€™s 17 percent higher than this yearā€™s level. The committeeā€™s bill includes $1.7...

NCSHA Washington Report | June 17, 2022

The fact that the most significant federal incentive for affordable apartment construction is largely a state-designed and delivered program, reflecting core federal concerns, is not news to...

NCSHA Washington Report | June 10, 2022

Some of the impacts higher interest rates have on housing costs are fairly obvious, yet their knock-on effects can be surprising in the additional affordability challenges they create. For...