As is so often the case with efforts to improve institutional diversity, progress on inclusiveness at FHFA has been mixed.

Lenders had argued that any debt-to-income ratio calculated early in the mortgage process would be subject to change and possible redisclosure requirements.

The FHFA director tells NAR members she’s focused on data-driven, fact-based policy-making.

The former FHFA director claims that Wall Street critics worried his policies would cut into their profits.

Nonbanks and REITs make a bid for FHLBank membership. Community banks and credit unions say that would be a mistake. Is there a middle ground?

The GSEs’ regulator has backtracked on its controversial rules for commingled securities.

Will lower FHA premiums steal market share from the GSEs? According to analysts, private mortgage insurer pricing still makes the GSEs the better execution for borrowers with credit scores over 680. But private MIs are still nervous.

Deciding whether the GSEs should use FICO or VantageScore or both turned out to be the easy part. The hard part is going to be the multiyear process of figuring out how to use the scores together.

FHFA plans to host nine roundtable discussions and a three-day listening session as part of its review of the Federal Home Loan Banks.

In a sign of how much business declined at Fannie and Freddie last year, their contributions to the two affordable housing programs are off 50% from 2022.