The final rule aligns the VA partial claim program with initiatives implemented by the FHA and USDA. The rule goes into effect July 27.

The government MI amended documentation requirements for borrowers with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status.

The bipartisan House bill seeks to give teachers and first responders access to an FHA mortgage without having to make a downpayment.

Flagstar Bank has made a final payment of $70 million to the DOJ to settle allegations of faulty underwriting on FHA loans from 2012.

Marcia Fudge invites political controversy during her first White House briefing as HUD secretary.

A downpayment assistance bill, which is still just a “discussion draft,” has the potential to provide $20,000 to first-generation homebuyers.

Equity in their homes isn’t enough to prevent many borrowers from losing their house to foreclosure, according to the CRL.

The new timeline moves the moratorium’s expiration deadline, as well as the timeframe for a borrower to request an initial COVID-19 forbearance by three months to June 30.

Susquehanna International Group dismissed the private MI industry’s concerns over a potential FHA cut as “unwarranted” and not aligned “with the underlying math.”

The ban on evictions and foreclosures has been extended through March 31.