Washington Report
NCSHA Washington Report | August 26, 2022
āIMMENSELY AGAINST multifamily development!ā Thatās 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 āthe 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 weekās Senate Finance Committee hearing on tax incentives for affordable housing, Oregon Housing and Community Services Executive Director Andrea Bell didnāt mince words,...
NCSHA Washington Report | July 15, 2022
As Covidās 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 HUDās next fiscal year thatās 17 percent higher than this yearās level. The committeeās 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...