ICYMI: Industry Leaders Highlight the Neighborhood Homes Investment Act, Homeownership Supply Legislation at NAAHL/CAHL 2025 Policy and Practice Conference

Washington, D.C. (November 12, 2025) – The National Association of Affordable Housing Lenders (NAAHL)/Center for Affordable Housing Lending (CAHL) hosted its annual Policy and Practice Conference on November 5, 2025 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. This year’s conference was themed “Unlocking Housing Supply, Unlocking Economic Opportunity,” and brought together policymakers, industry practitioners, and community partners for a day of discussion focused on expanding economic opportunity through investments in affordable housing and community development.

Speakers highlighted the Neighborhood Homes Investment Act, bipartisan legislation that would create a tax incentive to build and preserve hundreds of thousands of affordable, single-family homes for homeownership in communities across the country, as a pragmatic solution to boosting affordable homeownership.

WATCH clips from the Policy and Practice Conference HERE. 

Highlights featuring the Neighborhood Homes Investment Act and the need for more affordable homeownership supply:

“Americans are really uncertain about the future, with 82% responding they think it will be harder for young people to buy a house when they grow up. But it doesn’t have to be this way, and Americans are ready for federal action,” said Sarah Brundage, NAAHL President & CEO and Co-Chair of the Neighborhood Homes Coalition, in opening remarks. “In the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election, a majority of respondents across party lines identified legislation to boost supply and address costs as an important priority.”

Sarah Edelman, Executive Vice President of Policy and Programs at the National Community Stabilization Trust and Co-Chair of the Neighborhood Homes Coalition, noted that the Neighborhood Homes Investment Act is “a strongly supported bipartisan proposal that would help…make starter home production more economical.”

The Neighborhood Homes Investment Act “offers a commonsense, at least partial, solution to our affordable housing crisis,” stated Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), co-lead of the Neighborhood Homes Investment Act, in recorded remarks. “This legislation would create tax incentives to build and preserve more than 500,000 single family homes in under-resourced communities.”

“This important bipartisan legislation creates new incentives for building and restoring affordable housing in areas that need it most. Through this bill we can continue supporting innovative public-private partnerships that scale housing investments and strengthen local economies” said Senator Todd Young (R-IN), co-lead of the Neighborhood Homes Investment Act, in recorded remarks.

Stockton Williams, Executive Director of the National Council of State Housing Agencies touted the Neighborhood Homes Investment Act as an “opportunity for future advocacy” when it comes to the creation of a tax credit to support the rehabilitation and construction of single family homes.

The Neighborhood Homes Investment Act (S.1686, H.R. 2854) is the most widely supported homeownership supply bill in Congress. The bipartisan, bicameral legislation would expand affordable homeownership supply by creating a federal tax credit to build and rehabilitate affordable homes for urban, suburban, rural, and tribal communities, giving families opportunities to build wealth where they live and work.

Learn more at www.neighborhoodhomesinvestmentact.org.