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Fintech lender LoanSnap evicted, faces financial and legal turmoil

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Legal and financial troubles are piling up for mortgage fintech lender LoanSnap , with the company having been recently evicted from its headquarters in Southern California. As for the eviction, TechCrunch reported that it stemmed from a lawsuit filed by its landlord in February 2024.

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HUD Grants Millions to Help End Homelessness, Prevent Evictions

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Through the Eviction Protection Grant Program (EPGP), a first-of-its-kind federal program created to increase the availability of legal services to tenants at risk of or subject to eviction, the U.S. Legal experts supported by this funding help provide housing stability across the country.

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Fannie Mae expands voucher program for multifamily landlords

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without source-of-income protections (provided their property is not already legally required to accept the vouchers and that at least 40% of the units are affordable or considered “small area fair market rents”). The program was previously limited only to eligible properties in North Carolina and Texas.

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Zillow to list housing discrimination protections

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The update expands Zillow’s Local Legal Protections tool, which was created in 2018 to help LGBT home searchers identify if their rights were protected by local laws in certain jurisdictions. Still, federal law does not prevent landlords from rejecting all housing vouchers.

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Big-name brokerages among those accused of income-based discrimination in California

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But as many as 200 real estate agents , brokerage firms and landlords are alleged to have violated this law by discriminating against applicants with federally subsidized Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers, according to an undercover investigation conducted by the Housing Rights Initiative (HRI). ”

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FHFA Issues New Tenant Protections

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A 30-day written notice of a lease expiration: Renters will be notified at least 30 days in advance of their lease expiration, whether fixed/scheduled or terminated by the landlord. Tenants can see if their property is Enterprise-backed using Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s multifamily property look-up tools.

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DOJ thumps RealPage with another antitrust lawsuit over AI-driven rent pricing

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The DOJ filed a civil suit against RealPage on Friday, claiming that the company’s YieldStar and AI revenue management (AIRM) software allowed multifamily landlords to artificially inflate rents through the sharing of private information. A DOJ official said that additional landlord defendants could be added to the complaint in the future.

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