Experts weigh in: Steps to protect tenants from eviction are "completely appropriate," but it’s "completely unrealistic" to assume landlords can bear 100% of the financial burden of missed rent payments.
Read More »Do New PSPA Limits Undermine Efforts to Combat Discrimination?
Researchers say recent changes made in the name of risk management limit access to mortgage credit and disproportionately affect Black and Hispanic borrowers.
Read More »FHFA Extensions Will Align COVID-19 Mortgage Relief Policies
The agency's extensions are available to GSE-backed borrowers who are in a COVID-19 forbearance plan as of the end of February.
Read More »Fed Chair: Developments Point to Improved Economic Outlook
Holding down interest rates and leveraging the central bank’s balance sheet to encourage asset purchases is the best way to ease labor market and broader economic challenges, Powell told Congress.
Read More »California’s Last Legislative Session Left Housing Advocates Disappointed
The Golden State's dated zoning ordinances over the years have contributed to an affordable housing crisis, analysts say. So what might make its next legislative session different?
Read More »Single-Family Temporary Flexibilities Extended, FHA Announces
A set of policy allowances for single-family lenders and servicers will be in place through June, according to the administration.
Read More »HUD Announces Disaster Assistance for Texas’ Winter Storm Victims
As Texas is now a presidentially declared major disaster area, Lone Star State homeowners qualify for these foreclosure protections.
Read More »Opportunity Zones: Housing Performance Scorecard
A new report examines home price performance in Opportunity Zones as compared to that of other regions. Here's why the report suggests that "many distressed communities are ripe for the redevelopment that the Opportunity Zone tax breaks are designed to promote."
Read More »The Week Ahead: Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s Congressional Report
Next week, Fed Chair Jerome Powell will once again appear before Congress to update the legislature on monetary policy.
Read More »Mixed Reactions to Biden’s Foreclosure-Ban Extension
Some industry organizations have endorsed the move, while other insiders say they have concerns.
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