Prevent Foreclosures and Stabilize Impacted Neighborhoods

• Improve implementation of existing federal policies to stem foreclosures

• Develop new and better federal tools to stem foreclosures

• Ensure strong federal support for local and regional efforts to stabilize communities with large concentrations of foreclosures

Help Working Families Meet Their Housing Challenges

• Create incentives for employers to invest in housing for their workers

• Support shared equity homeownership and other promising models that help bridge the gap between rental housing and market-rate homeownership

• Preserve affordable rental housing as a resource for future generations

• Strengthen the capacity of states and localities to develop comprehensive and effective housing strategies

Strengthen the Nation’s Housing Finance System

• Reform the Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) to minimize systemic risk while ensuring support for affordable housing and reliable access to long-term fixed-rate mortgages and multifamily finance

• Strengthen Federal Housing Administration’s capacity and flexibility to meet the nation’s housing financing needs

• Ensure high-functioning markets for Low-Income Housing Tax Credits and mortgage revenue and multifamily housing bonds

Improve the Coordination of Housing, Transportation and Energy Policy

• Create incentives for states and localities to preserve and expand the availability of housing that is permanently affordable to low- and moderate-income families near public transit and job and retail centers

• Create incentives for individuals and multifamily property owners to improve the energy-efficiency of existing residential dwellings

Support and Strengthen Federal Low-Income Housing Programs

• Support strong funding levels for federal low-income housing programs

• Improve effectiveness of federal low-income housing programs

**Please note that the above NHC policy and advocacy priorities are not ranked.**