The Trump administration’s planned reduction-in-force would terminate more than 1,400 employees at the bureau, reducing the agency’s workforce to around 200 employees.
Population density, the type of lender and creditworthiness all appear to be factors affecting denial rate disparities between same-sex and opposite-sex couples applying for loans.
The bureau’s credit card late fee final rule is officially dead; CFPB plans to revoke advisory opinion reminding collectors of medical debt of their FDCPA obligations; CFPB ends a lawsuit against a company and its CEO; new working papers from the CFPB.
Like most GSE reform plans, the hedge funder’s plan to privatize Fannie and Freddie starts with Treasury writing down its senior preferred shares and FHFA sharply reducing the capital requirements for the GSEs.
NAMB has urged FHFA to end the GSEs’ use of LLPAs targeting second homes and investment properties and to lower the AMI threshold for borrowers to qualify for affordable housing programs.
CFPB researchers determined that, although loans for second homes declined after FHFA imposed steep fees on those loan types, the expected increase in primary-residence loans never materialized.