Latest Updates
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Risk Share and FFB Continues to Provide Options for States Looking to Increase Housing Production
New data released by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) shows that the Section 542(c) Risk Share and Federal Financing Bank (FFB) program continues to serve as a useful tool for state Housing Finance Agencies (HFAs) aiming to increase affordable housing production across the United States. From 2024 to 2025, interest in…
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Raising risk, reducing supply: How federal rental assistance cuts could break the housing market
Project-based rental assistance is one of the federal government’s most powerful tools for supporting the production and preservation of affordable housing. By guaranteeing stable, long-term rental payments, these types of contracts enable housing development in markets where rents would otherwise not support construction or rehabilitation, especially in rural or smaller communities. Congress should therefore take…
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One big beautiful blackout
It’s not just about cost—the bill text imposes new and perhaps insurmountable uncertainties on project developers and investors.
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Updates on the Senate reconciliation bill
As of June 17, 2025, these are the changes Center for Public Enterprise is tracking in the Senate Finance Committee’s draft of the “Big Beautiful Bill.” They are not meant to be exhaustive, but rather important items to flag for the energy sector and public finance. Sources for this summary include the bill text, the…
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A brownout at the LPO?
This proposal would, in no uncertain terms, mean the end of the Loan Programs Office as we know it. And, as written, the Energy Dominance Financing program that Senate ENR has put forth to replace the LPO’s existing programs is not set up for success, either.
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Rising Insurance in America
Read the full report here. Center for Public Enterprise is excited to share with our community this important research completed by our Spring 2025 Research Assistants at American University’s Master of Public Administration and Policy: Jacqueline Crespo, Taylor Jones, Sarah Moore and Tommy Zabonik. The Impact of Fluctuating Insurance Coverage on Affordable Housing explores how…
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Public Service and Imagining the Future Public Sector
This week, during Public Service Recognition Week of all weeks, my social feeds are filled with tributes and reflections from friends and colleagues leaving federal service because they were either forced out or saw the writing on the wall. We are collectively losing decades upon decades of expertise and knowledge that up until now has…
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Electric School Bus Dealers
Author’s Note: I recently had the honor of being invited to present to the World Resource Institute’s Electric School Bus Initiative consortium alongside Jigar Shah, the former director of the Loan Programs Office. The WRI electric mobility team asked me to present on how public developers could support traditional green banking-related solutions to e-mobility challenges.…
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Credit due: A money market approach to Clean Energy Tax Credits
While there is quite a bit of uncertainty about the future of the IRA, the clean energy tax credits appear to be the most robust part of the law. They have extremely strong, bipartisan interest groups behind them. In addition, despite being the biggest line item in the bill, their budget impact is small compared…
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Energy finance trends in 2024: What are the experts saying?
Every January, the project finance law team at Norton Rose Fulbright brings together infrastructure investment experts to discuss trends across the American energy finance landscape. These Cost of Capital Outlook reports have been a fount of information for our team’s energy finance modeling work. There’s no other source we’ve found that so succinctly covers trends…