Tag Archives: Affordable Housing

Despite the high risk of drought and flooding, Phoenix ranks as the most popular destination for homebuyers looking to move to a different part of the country, followed by Las Vegas and several Florida metros, according to a new report from Redfin.

HUD’s new office will administer the Department’s Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards, a code that establishes standards for the design and construction of manufactured homes to assure quality, durability, safety, and affordability.

While racial disparities in homeownership are at their highest level in 50 years, closing the Black-white homeownership gap in the U.S. will take adding nearly five million African American homeowners, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The NAR says the market needs an additional 320,000 new home listings valued at no more than $256,000 so that borrowers earning below $75,000 can get into the market.

FHFA Director Sandra L. Thompson will testify before the House Financial Services Committee to discuss the latest measures taken by the Agency to execute its mission of maintaining the safety and soundness of the GSEs, and ensuring access to affordable and sustainable housing.

According to Ginnie Mae, April’s mortgage-backed securities issuance supported the financing of more than 112,000 households, including assisting more than 50,700 first-time homebuyers.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has published the Final Rule for the National Standards for the Physical Inspection of Real Estate in the Federal Register, which will be effective July 1 and October 1 for all rental assistance programs.

Mark Tribuna of CRA Note Exchange discusses how the secondary market has transformed from trading exclusively second-mortgage down payment assistance loans to also handling first-lien notes for affiliates of Habitat for Humanity International.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has announced the issuance of $382 million via the Housing Trust Fund that will increase and preserve the supply of decent, safe, and sanitary affordable housing for extremely-low and very low-income households.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced an available $30.3 billion for the Housing Choice Voucher Program that will help Public Housing Authorities address recent rent inflation and enable more low-income families to utilize housing vouchers.