Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Rogers met with HousingWire to discuss his new role and cover a variety of topics, including artificial intelligence (AI), climate risk and land development. NP: You work directly with land developers too. What sort of policies are you helping to develop on their end? This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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Housing Wire

JULY 2, 2024

Over 20 years ago, the federal government established June as National Homeownership Month to celebrate the value of homeownership and its benefits, including enabling generational wealth and creating strong communities. Americans are growing weary of the lack of action from the federal government on housing.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2024

metro areas that are embracing new development and “creating a more diverse and plentiful supply of homes.“ metro areas that are embracing new development and “creating a more diverse and plentiful supply of homes.“ The report noted that the city revised an ordinance in 2021 to encourage the development of affordable housing.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) this week announced the launch of a new program designed to allow for the purchase, refinance or renovation of manufactured housing under a loan program sponsored by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA).

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2024

government, working on behalf of Ginnie Mae and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), last week filed a slew of new documents in their court case against Texas Capital Bank (TCB). The second filing is a memorandum from Ginnie Mae that reiterates several arguments the government has made against TCB.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) on Monday unveiled its three-year plan for the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to improve housing opportunities in underserved areas. Each GSE will be taking different actions to assess the potential impacts of these plans.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

And actual robotic assistance is something being developed in other parts of the world, including through government endorsement of the idea. These include the active encouragement by the governments of the countries examined to construct robots for social utility, including for in-home care.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

A Department of Veterans Affairs lending program for Native American veterans has been severely underutilized, a government watchdog found. According to a report the Government Accountability Office published this week, the VA’s Native American Direct Loan program only resulted in 89 loans originated in the continental U.S.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The Government MCAI remained steady, whereas the Conventional MCAI rose by 1.8%. Conventional, Government, Conforming, & Jumbo MCAI Component Indices Using the same process as the Total MCAI, the Conventional, Government, Conforming, and Jumbo MCAIs are created to display the relative credit risk and availability for each index.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The Underserved Mortgage Markets Coalition (UMMC), a coalition of 32 housing groups initially convened by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy , published a report on Wednesday that recommended actions for the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. mortgage finance system.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The Government MCAI grew by 0.8%, while the Conventional MCAI fell by 1.7%. While the Conventional MCAI looks at non-government loan programs, the Government MCAI looks into FHA, VA, and USDA loan programs. Key Findings from the Mortgage Credit Availability Index: In September, the MCAI dropped by 0.5%

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Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2024

Sam Valverde Speaking to attendees during a keynote speech, Valverde said that the government-owned company had “a reputation of being less than transparent,” according to the reporting, and wanted to “sensitize” the reverse mortgage market to its plans for the new product. The announcement was reportedly met with applause from attendees.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2024

The Community Home Lenders of America (CHLA) on Wednesday released a plan that it says would “modernize” Ginnie Mae , the government-owned company that manages the securitization of government-sponsored loans. This undermines Ginnie Mae’s ability to run a market-driven program.” This recommendation is based on two other ideas.

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) underwriting requirements in connection with the underwriting of approximately 1,500 [HECMs],” they explained. But by failing to develop causation evidence, the DOJ is now limited to seeking only civil penalties against Nutter. 9 — the defense is encouraged by this development.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 11, 2024

While the Government MCAI fell by 0.1%, the Conventional MCAI climbed by 2.0 While the Conventional MCAI looks at non-government loan programs, the Government MCAI looks into FHA, VA, and USDA loan programs. Government March 31, 2012=183.5. In March 2012, the index was benchmarked at 100.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2024

A private planning firm in California is launching a new tool to help local governments there prepare for a pending law designed to spur more construction of accessory dwelling units (ADUs). Local governments are uniquely positioned to help residents through the daunting process of building an ADU.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 8, 2024

While the Government MCAI fell by 0.1%, the Conventional MCAI climbed by 6.4%. Using the same process as the Total MCAI, the Conventional, Government, Conforming, and Jumbo MCAIs are created to display the relative credit risk and availability for each index. In March 2012, the index was benchmarked at 100.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 6, 2024

Attorneys for Ginnie Mae have responded to Texas Capital Bank (TBC) over the government’s motion to move the case to a different venue. They say that the bank’s own filing on the matter avoids the key issues that the government sought to raise regarding the original clause that specifies where any related legal actions should take place.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

Gromowski, the company’s head of data science, and Singh, the vice president of GenAI property insights, discussed the importance of data in the development of artificial intelligence and offered advice for companies that wish to integrate AI into their business processes.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

As a government-sponsored enterprise (GSE), the FHLBank system is Congressionally chartered to receive unique subsidies, tax exemptions, and powers, in exchange for providing the public benefits of supporting affordable housing and community development. in government subsidies. billion dollars(!) billion dollars(!)

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JUNE 27, 2024

Still , Vice Chair, Pulte Financial Services Sheri Thompson , EVP, Head of Affordable Housing, Walker & Dunlop Eileen Tu , VP, Mortgage Policy and Credit Development, Rocket Mortgage John Wiechmann , President/CEO, Midwest Housing Equity Group Inc.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and state and local housing finance agencies,” according to the announcement. The third provision is an extension of the support from the Federal Financing Bank (FFB) for “a risk-sharing initiative between the U.S.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 6, 2025

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) granted $40 million in funding to 21 recipients to support housing stability and prevent evictions and homelessness. Diversion : increasing tenant access to, and participation in, non-adversarial resolutions outside the court system.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Ginnie Mae largely deny any allegations made against the company in the original complaint. Attorneys for the U.S. This is according to court documents reviewed by RMD. The judge largely disagreed.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

These shifting dynamics are causing the California state government to work to ensure that certain issues that can stem from such a demographic development — particularly for health care, housing and social services — are addressed in a comprehensive statewide initiative called the “Master Plan for Aging.”

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) submitted a motion to change the court venue where a case with Texas Capital Bank (TCB) is taking place, arguing that a contract clause has been violated by TCB’s choice to file the case in Amarillo, Texas, as opposed to Dallas. The government made the filing Saturday, June 15.

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) — have been restored as of Monday morning following a global tech outage on Friday. In addition to government computer systems, ICE Mortgage Technologies confirmed for HousingWire on Friday that its Encompass loan origination system was impacted by the outage. As of 10 a.m.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Sam Valverde, the acting president of Ginnie Mae , has overseen the work the government-owned company is currently engaging in to better improve the liquidity situation for the companies involved in the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)’s Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2025

On Twitter today, the Minneapolis Fed tweeted out a quote from one of their recent articles : “9th District apartment construction is expected to slow down soon as number of construction permits sought by developers fall. Twin Cities has seen the worst decline while some cities in Greater MN, MT, and SD fare better.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ). Against the backdrop of these market dynamics, housing affordability and accessibility have emerged as central themes in state governance. New-home sales reached a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 661,000 in January, according to data published Monday by the U.S. million to 7.3

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Friday announced the availability of $26 million in funding to be distributed to state and local housing agencies to enforce fair housing practices and to combat discrimination.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

He left for Freddie Mac in 1995, where he was senior vice president of single family lending and led product development, credit risk and contract negotiations for all single family businesses. He left government service and became president of the Mortgage Bankers Association.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2024

After those government-supported mortgages terminate due to maturity or prepayment, the owners can, and many do, convert their multifamily properties to market-rate rents, or sell them to new owners that are not committed to providing housing that is affordable to struggling low-income rural tenants.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 6, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the FHA and the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) in collaboration with the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) — was designed to ”develop an aligned approach for both FHA-insured mortgages and those purchased or guaranteed by” the GSEs, HUD explained.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Before the new law was enforced, many condo associations were investing their reserves in government-insured instruments, sacrificing their liquidity to generate a return. In May 2022, the Florida Legislature introduced a new condominium safety law, which mandates more rigorous inspections and stronger financial reserves for HOAs.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Nearly 50 interviews from staff members in the federal government, financial technology companies, mortgage lenders and consumer advocates found that the ability of AI to improve racial equity can be undermined by the data used to train the algorithm, not just by the algorithm itself.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Ultimately, though, local governments remain the key gatekeepers when it comes to ADU liberalization. While state-level ADU policies take aim at local rules that hamper ADU development, there’s still work to be done. That’s because impact fees can add up to more than enough to stifle ADU development. But first, the good news.

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