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The Federal Housing Administration is aiming to limit the share of borrowers who have been withdrawing money from the value of their homes.
August 1 -
Eric Blankenstein, now at HUD, is under fire for asking a subordinate to defend him after it was revealed he wrote racially charged blogs 14 years earlier.
July 29 -
The agreement with authorities including the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general — and possibly the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — may be announced as soon as Monday.
July 19 -
The Federal Housing Administration is delaying a plan to put a hard stop on home loan files that lack digitally signed appraisals.
July 12 -
A group of Senate Democrats have called on HUD Secretary Ben Carson to reverse his agency’s opinion that borrowers in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program are ineligible for FHA loans.
June 26 -
The president signed an executive order Tuesday establishing a White House council dedicated to examining regulatory barriers to affordable housing.
June 25 -
Fuller transparency from lenders in the mortgage decision process and disclosure on disapprovals would help keep biases in check and take down racial barriers to homeownership, according to a study by Clever Real Estate.
June 24 -
There are clear actions that regulators at the CFPB, SEC and FHFA can take to help attract investors into the housing market, argues former FHFA Director Ed DeMarco.
June 14 -
The interpretation by HUD, conveyed in a letter to Congress by Assistant Secretary Len Wolfson, appeared to contradict the agency's earlier comments about borrowers in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
June 13 -
Despite the Fair Housing Act going into effect 51 years ago, LGBTQ+ still face discrimination when buying a home or applying for a mortgage.
June 13