Law and regulation

Wisconsin Republican Sean Duffy routinely pushed to restructure the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and authored a bill to reform the flood insurance program.

Cities and counties in Southern California will have to plan for the construction of 1.3 million new homes in the next decade, a figure more than three times what local governments had proposed over the same period, according to a letter released by state housing officials.

California officials are threatening legal action if Cupertino, hometown of Apple, doesn't meet its housing goals.

Equitable Group Inc. and Home Capital Group Inc. are reaping a windfall from Canada's tighter mortgage regulations.

Former Lend America executive Michael Ashley was sentenced to three years in prison for his actions that led to the implosion of the once-high-flying Melville, N.Y.-based mortgage lender.

In a blow to a city struggling to build enough affordable housing, a controversial proposal to house formerly homeless people in buildings constructed from recycled shipping containers not far from San Jose's Willow Glen neighborhood has stalled.

County supervisors approve a disputed project. Gov. Gavin Newsom agrees to a statewide housing policy. President Trump moves to ease home-construction regulations across the nation.

Democratic lawmakers argue that Paul Watkins' former employment at a "homophobic hate group" makes him unfit to lead the agency's innovation office. Watkins says he did no advocacy work for that organization.

As officials prepare plans for the government-sponsored enterprises' exit from conservatorship, there's no shortage of speculation about what those plans might look like and how they might affect the mortgage industry.

The bipartisan proposal aims to renew banks' interest in low-income housing tax credits and bring more lower-priced homes to markets that badly need them.