Housing

Officials at the Department of Housing and Urban Development have started to develop a plan to provide housing to some of Puerto Rico's displaced population.

Fannie Mae is testing a conforming loan product that makes use of a New Hampshire law that lets manufactured housing in resident-owned communities get treated like units in a co-operative building.

The Canyon 2 wildfire has been contained for more than a week, but aftereffects from the 9,200-acre conflagration still are rippling throughout Orange County, Calif.

Some housing groups are warming to an idea that they say could help more Americans benefit from housing-related subsidies than the mortgage interest deduction.

A limited housing supply fueled by the San Francisco Bay Area's booming job growth and decades of slow construction has forced home values and rents to near record highs.

For the past eight years, Brian Montgomery has helped mortgage lenders fight penalties sought by the Federal Housing Administration. Now he's President Trump's nominee to lead the agency.

Soot and ash are still settling over the Sonoma County, Calif., housing market, but real estate brokers and lenders contend the fiery destruction of a few thousand properties here will make it harder for both buyers and renters to find new homes.

California faces a different set of housing challenges from other U.S. areas that are reeling from recent natural disasters.

Hundreds of federally subsidized housing residents in Pittsburgh's East End are being forced from their homes because of squalid conditions.

For families with household incomes below $50,000, the improving housing market in 2016 meant rising prices, and fewer homes and apartments they can afford to rent or buy, according to a report from HousingWorks RI.

Lenders could be responsible for water quality issues affecting borrowers and properties if the Federal Housing Administration follows through with its response to an inspector general's report.

In the San Fernando Valley, outside Los Angeles, there are plans to level a nearly vacant mall and replace it with some 1,400 homes, boutique retail shops and a concert venue.

Building off the success of policy changes in 2016, there are now even more ways for mortgage lenders to help student loan borrowers become homeowners.

The tight rental market in Santa Fe, N.M., has always been an issue with those looking to work in the city or relocate here.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency's Duty to Serve program must increase manufactured housing lending in rural communities.

California appears unlikely to be able to build enough homes in the coming years to put a meaningful dent in skyrocketing housing prices triggered by a shortage of affordable dwellings.

The plight of Orlando-area renters sheds light on a new set of post-Irma realities — rent payments on uninhabitable homes and apartments, challenges getting rent deposits refunded and few housing options in a tight rental market.

Stranded without power in the wake of Hurricane Irma, thousands of South Florida seniors have found themselves trapped without access to elevators, air conditioning, telephones and even medical devices.

As expected, President Trump has nominated Brian Montgomery to serve as the commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration.

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas is providing $6.7 million in grants along with $1 billion in additional advances to its members as part of its Hurricane Harvey relief efforts.