Press Releases

In an Aug. 21 letter, a broad group of 31 housing groups urged congressional leaders and the administration to return to negotiations on a stimulus package to protect renters, property owners and the stability of the nation’s rental housing stock. “We implore you to immediately return to the negotiating table and reach agreement on rental assistance and broader relief legislation that keeps people in their homes,” the letter stated.

NHC President and CEO David M. Dworkin says the president’s executive order on evictions “is not enough to forestall an eviction crisis.”

“Reasonable people can disagree on the technical elements of any regulation, but nothing about this action is reasonable. It guts the purpose of this important civil rights legislation,” said NHC President and CEO David M. Dworkin. “Eliminating the AFFH regulation is an invitation to do nothing to address the impact local policies and practices can have on increasing racial inequality,” Dworkin said.

The National Housing Conference (NHC) strongly supports passage of H.R. 2, the Moving Forward Act, which House Democratic leadership outlined in text released this week. The bill provides important measures that will facilitate the production of affordable housing across the country, including $100 billion in new funding for affordable housing, a new tax credit for investment in lower cost homes, and an increase in the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) allocation by more than 60%.

The National Housing Conference (NHC) this week expressed its support of a congressional resolution to repeal the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC) final rule on the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA).

The National Housing Conference (NHC) today announced the appointment of Anne Segrest McCulloch as chair of the organization’s Board of Governors. McCulloch is president and CEO of the Housing Partnership Equity Trust, a social-purpose real estate investment trust (REIT).

The OCC has issued its final CRA rule just six weeks after the end of the comment period on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPR) and amid the worst health and economic crisis of our lifetimes. Banks, regulators and community groups must be singularly focused on responding to this unprecedented crisis, and not on bureaucratic and regulatory diversions that will sidetrack essential resources from the task at hand.

Today, NHC joined with a diverse coalition of organizations in housing and community development to call for federal regulatory agencies to temporarily suspend housing-related rulemaking procedures that are unrelated to our nation’s response to the health and economic ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“FHFA’s announcement today is an important first step. Ensuring servicers can move payments to the end of the loan term and get reimbursed in four months is progress.”

NHC strongly recommends an immediate suspension of all regulatory processes involving housing and financial services that do not directly contribute to the war against the COVID-19 virus and its economic aftermath.