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Volume 29 - Number 5

February 3, 2012

Mortgage Lending Trade Groups Ask HUD to Delay Fair Lending Proposed Rule Before Supreme Court Hearing

A group of six real estate finance trade organizations has called upon the Department of Housing and Urban Development to hold off on implementing a proposed rule on the “discriminatory effects standard” of the Fair Housing Act until the U.S. Supreme Court can weigh in on the issue this spring. The American Bankers Association, American Financial Services Association, Consumer Bankers Association, Consumer Mortgage Coalition, Independent Community Bankers of America and Mortgage Bankers Association asked HUD to postpone its rulemaking process to establish uniform standards for discrimination under the...

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