Agencies and regulators are seeking stakeholder input on how to improve lending and securitization in the manufactured home space.

The former FHFA director said, given the Federal Reserve’s commitment to fight inflation, home prices could fall by double digits in percentage terms over the next few years.

Under the initiative, the Department of Housing and Urban Development will also increase trainings for CDFIs to become FHA-approved lenders.

Though two prominent nonbank lenders shuttered recently as the refi business slows, there are currently few concerns about the potential for widespread failures of nonbanks.

Delinquency rates on FHA and VA loans pooled in Ginnie Mae MBS increased in the second quarter of 2022. Most of the spike was on the FHA side. (Includes four data charts.)

Commissioner Julia Gordon assured industry participants that she is working through the challenges of bringing changes to the FHA home loan program.

If FHA wants to consider the sustainability of manufactured housing, it must work on how personal-property units fit within a manufactured housing community, said FHA Commissioner Julia Gordon.

The new provisions apply to both FHA’s single-family home Title II and its home equity conversion mortgage programs.

The Mortgage Bankers Association called for FHA to have enough funding for it to better manage the risks associated with the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund.

Funding announced to rehabilitate certain veterans’ homes; Rural Housing Service announces regulatory waivers; share of Ginnie Mae home loans in forbearance rises; HUD to host pre-purchase counseling symposium; HUD schedules housing counseling advisory meeting; Ginnie to hold issuer training and listening session.