The Department of Housing and Urban Development has unveiled a new manufactured-housing action plan aimed at modernizing the federal construction code and opening the door to new factory-built designs. The Next Generation Manufactured Housing Action Plan, announced...
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has selected the National Institute of Building Sciences to lead a new effort aimed at expanding the use of factory-built construction in multifamily housing. The initiative announced Oct. 7 will run for 12 months...
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has opened a fair-housing investigation into Wells Fargo over mortgage and homeownership initiatives designed to increase Black homeownership, escalating a federal reversal on race-conscious credit programs from policy...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture and Department of Housing and Urban Development have signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at reducing overlapping federal requirements affecting housing development and homeownership.The agreement, announced Sept. 29,...
The Federal Housing Administration is now testing the mortgage industry’s redesigned appraisal-data standard in its production environment, putting FHA lenders into the next phase of a transition that is already much further along at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. FHA’s...
Inflation Expectations Hit Three-Year High as Rent Outlook Climbs to 6.8%
