Washington Report
NCSHA Washington Report | December 6, 2024
Three of President-Elect Trump’s recent high-profile appointments suggest the Opportunity Zone tax incentive will be a top priority for the incoming administration in next year’s huge tax...
NCSHA Washington Report | November 22, 2024
Congress began work in earnest this week on legislation to provide federal relief to states that have experienced major disasters over the past few years. On Monday, President Biden sent House...
NCSHA Washington Report | November 15, 2024
Every presidential administration since Ronald Reagan’s has variously decried the role of regulations in impeding housing construction and increasing housing costs for lower-income...
NCSHA Washington Report | November 1, 2024
January 20, 2026 Dear President ________: Thank you for establishing housing affordability as one of your highest priorities in the first year of your term, and congratulations on the steps...
NCSHA Washington Report | October 25, 2024
The home stretch of the presidential campaign has largely crowded out discussion of what the Congress, currently on recess, will have to do when it returns to Washington for a lame-duck session in...
NCSHA Washington Report | October 18, 2024
Pundits of various stripes coined memorable, somewhat ominous phrases to describe the apparent transformations in American life that seemed to be unfolding with astonishing speed during the early...
NCSHA Washington Report | October 11, 2024
The last two weeks have eliminated any doubt that the country’s capacity to respond to natural disasters has reached a breaking point. On October 2, as bodies were still being recovered in...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 26, 2024
Heading into NCSHA’s Annual Conference & Showplace next week, back by popular demand and with apologies to the Harper’s Index, a few handfuls of housing and other facts for the...
NCSHA Washington Report | September 20, 2024
Even before the Federal Reserve began, in March 2022, to hike interest rates repeatedly to tame inflation, housing economists and financiers knew the likely result would be bad for affordability. A...
