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CFPB ponders how well HMDA captures discrimination

Housing Wire

In a virtual seminar Thursday on “modern-day redlining,” attorneys from Garris Horn, LLP , said the CFPB’s current definition of the practice is better termed “marketing discrimination.”. The HMDA data is a crucial tool for the CFPB in constructing redlining cases. The agency further refined the HMDA rule in 2017.

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Manufactured homes are appreciating faster than site-built homes

Housing Wire

increased by 58.34% between 2018 and 2023. In September, HUD announced updates to its manufactured housing construction and safety standards. It called these the most extensive updates of their kind in three decades as the department seeks to modernize the features of manufactured homes to drive demand.

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Making housing more affordable by bridging the affordable supply gap

Housing Wire

And according to MetroStudy , in 2018, 70% of Millennial survey participants planned to purchase a home in the next 12 months. ?. As Candace Taylor writes in The Wall Street Journal , “These days, buyers eschew the large, ornate houses built in [previous] years in favor of smaller, more-modern looking alternatives.”

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Can 3-D printed homes help solve the housing crisis?

Housing Wire

To Ballard, 3D printing technology is evolving to solve a crisis in modern day America and the world: The failure to meet people’s demand for housing. A former Texas A&M cross country and track athlete and Episcopalian minister, Ballard in 2011 co-founded TreeHouse , a retailer to sell environmentally friendly home construction materials.

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Opinion: Reformed FHA program will offer lenders new business opportunities

Housing Wire

Modern manufactured homes are an unusual feature of today’s housing market, the rare homeownership opportunity that is both lower-cost and high-quality. Just five lenders originated more than 75% of all home-only loans from 2018 to 2022, four of whom specialize in home-only lending.

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Why housing inventory is so low right now

Housing Wire

Yes, but this is where my work is much different from other housing economists and why we need to think of inventory in a new, modern 21st-century mindset. Then in 2018, when mortgage rates got to 5%, we had a supply shock for the builders, which in essence stalled out construction for 30 months. Wait, what?

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Why housing inventory is so low right now

Housing Wire

Yes, but this is where my work is much different from other housing economists and why we need to think of inventory in a new, modern 21st-century mindset. Then in 2018, when mortgage rates got to 5%, we had a supply shock for the builders, which in essence stalled out construction for 30 months. Wait, what?

Inventory 435