Resource Center

Looking for talking points or FAQs to prepare for a meeting on Capitol Hill? A copy of NCSHA’s annual Factbook? Housing research and analysis? A presentation from a recent conference to share with a colleague? A reference guide for Housing Credit, HOME, MRBs, or Section 8 program administration? You’ve come to the right place: The NCSHA Resource Center is your source for this important information and much more. Refer to the right sidebar to see resource categories or use the search bar to search resources by topic.

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Emergency Housing Assistance Updates

Project-Based Section 8 Rental Assistance FAQs

HOME Investment Partnerships Program FAQs

The HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) provides grants to state and local governments to produce affordable housing for low‐income families. States and localities target flexible HOME funds to the particular needs of their communities.

Housing Trust Fund FAQs

What is the Housing Trust Fund? | Whom does HTF serve? | Who administers HTF? |How much funding is provided through HTF annually? | What should Congress do to improve HTF?

FHA-HFA Multifamily Loan Risk-Sharing Program FAQs

Congress established the Federal Housing Agency (FHA) – Housing Finance Agency (HFA) Multifamily Risk-Sharing program in 1992 to increase and speed up FHA’s multifamily mortgage production. The FHA-HFA Risk-Sharing program allows HFAs that meet rigorous financial standards to underwrite FHA multifamily loans in return for sharing the risk of losses on those loans.

Coalition Letter to Biden Administration to Extend Indefinitely Federal Financing Bank Funding for FHA Multifamily Risk-Sharing Mortgages

NCSHA and several other leading affordable housing groups signed this February 16, 2024, letter urging the Biden Administration to extend indefinitely the Federal Financing Bank (FFB) funding for FHA multifamily risk-sharing mortgages (FFB Risk-Sharing program). The FFB Risk-Sharing program provides affordable mortgage capital to housing finance agencies to help them finance the production and preservation of affordable rental housing. The program’s current authority expires October 1, 2024.

Housing Trust Fund (HTF) Allocations by State, 2016-2023

Housing Trust Fund (HTF) allocations from 2016 to 2023 listed by state.

Key Congressional Committee Rosters

NCSHA's key congressional committee rosters for the current Congress are listed.

NCSHA Comments on HUD’s Proposed Methodology Changes for Calculating Income Limits

On February 12, 2024, NCSHA submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on proposed changes to the methodology used for calculating Section 8 income limits. In our comments, NCSHA supported the proposed changes overall but encouraged HUD to explore the impact of cost increases on project viability and consider the necessity of the adjustments in ensuring that existing and future affordable housing developments do not face undue financial burden.

NCSHA List of HFAs Administering HTF from 2016 to Present

Below is NCSHA's list of HFA's Administering the National Housing Trust Fund (HTF) from 2016 to present.

HFAs’ Letter to Appropriators on Project-Based Rental Assistance Contract Administration

37 state Housing Finance Agencies (HFA) asked House and Senate Appropriations Committee leaders to preserve in any final FY 2024 HUD appropriations legislation the project-based rental assistance contract administration (PBCA) language contained in the Senate-passed FY 24 HUD appropriations bill