Despite its efforts to enhance its hiring outreach to potential minority and women contractors and employees during 2012, the Federal Housing Finance Agency still faces challenges finding qualified and diverse candidates, according to a new report to Congress by the FHFA’s Office of Minority and Women Inclusion. Established under a Dodd-Frank Act mandate, the OMWI noted that the Finance Agency’s overall representation of minorities and women “compares favorably to that of the federal and private workforces.” The FHFA’s 585 staffers in 2012 were comprised of 32.4 percent minorities and 46.7 females, compared to the federal government’s breakdown of 34.1 percent minorities and 43.5 percent females.