A federal appeals court in Washington, DC, has overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit accusing the Department of Housing and Urban Development of denying protection for surviving spouses of deceased principal borrowers of reverse mortgages against ejection due to foreclosure. The case, Robert Bennett, et al. v. Shaun Donovan, revealed an apparent inconsistency between HUD regulations and the federal statute that created the FHA’s Home Equity Conversion Mortgage Program. This inconsistency was at the root of the district court’s previous decision to dismiss plaintiffs’ claim for lack of standing, which the ...