“But HUD is doing the right thing here,” said Rob Moore, a senior policy analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

A few years back, Pinto and AEI unveiled a new mortgage product called the Wealth Building Home Loan, which was intended to provide an affordable mortgage option for low- and middle-income borrowers.

Acting Ginnie Mae President Michael Bright: “If they don’t have money to make principal and interest payments to investors every 20th day of the month, then Ginnie MBS are in trouble.”

An estimated $1.148 trillion of home-purchase mortgages were originated in 2017, a 10.7 percent increase from the prior year.

Loans in Tennessee account for the largest portion of the portfolio at 28 percent…

In January, the government-sponsored enterprises and Ginnie placed their guarantees on $102.48 billion of new single-family MBS, a modest 6.9 percent decline from December.

The firms that have been warned by Ginnie are: Cardinal Financial, Flagstar, Freedom Mortgage, JG Wentworth, loanDepot, Nations Lending, New Day Financial, SunWest Mortgage and Texas Capital Bank.

PHH Mortgage said it has taken its last loan application on behalf of a private-label origination client.

Flagstar Bank and NewDay Financial said they have policies and procedures in place to prevent churning, or serial refinancing…

Bright suggested that Ginnie Mae could work with the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago on risk-sharing transactions...