Despite opposition from industry members worried about legal implications, the Federal Housing Finance Agency decided to add a language-preference question to a redesigned loan application that will be required for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans in February 2020. On Oct. 20, the FHFA announced that the question will be added to the loan application to enable borrowers who prefer to communicate in a language other than English to identify that language. The Fannie/Freddie regulator also ...