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The homeownership rate among young Black adults who completed college is lower than that among young white adults who didn’t finish high school, according to a new report from the Urban Institute.

COVID sent home prices soaring and sped up sales. But it also created a spike in the proportion of homes removed from the market.

Single borrowers were more likely to use forbearance programs during the pandemic than coborrowers and were disproportionately helped by them, the Urban Institute found.

Systemwide, FHLBank advances grew 36.5% in the third quarter, helping drive a 51.1% sequential increase in profits. (Includes three data charts.)

The volume of multifamily loans the enterprises can purchase will be smaller in 2023, but the FHFA also expanded the mission-oriented qualifications.

Loan-level price adjustments for low-income and first-time borrowers and for loans that meet duty-to-serve requirements will be a thing of the past on Dec. 2.

The new social index methodology gives investors a rigorous, pool-based measure of the social impact of the mortgage-backed securities issued by the enterprises.