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The Coronavirus is Exposing Americaā€™s Housing Crisis

Just as Americans are being instructed to stay home, itā€™s becoming one of the hardest things to afford. On March 31, about 300 tenants received an email from their apartment management company. The...

HUD Moves Quickly To Make $3 Billion of COVID-19 Relief Funding Available To Communities Across The Nation

After the President signed the CARES Act last Friday, Secretary Ben Carson directed the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to immediately begin allocating $3.064 billion to help...

U.S. Holds Off on Extending Virus Aid to Mortgage Servicers

U.S. regulators are holding off on helping mortgage servicing firms that could be hit with a surge of missed payments from borrowers hurt by the coronavirus crisis, according to people familiar with...

HUD Issues New Cares Act Mortgage Payment Relief for FHA Single Family Homeowners

Washington -Ā  On April 1, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced a tailored set of mortgage payment relief options for single-family homeowners with FHA-insured mortgages who...

FHFA Authorizes the Enterprises to Support Additional Liquidity in the Secondary Mortgage Market

ā€‹Washington, D.C.ā€“ Today, to help support immediate needs for liquidity in the secondary mortgage market, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has authorized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the...

Fed Announces Unlimited Bond Purchases in Unprecedented Move to Help U.S. Economy Weather Coronavirus Meltdown

The Federal Reserve announced Monday an unlimited expansion of bond purchasing programs to backstop the U.S. economy, as millions of American households and businesses areĀ getting crushedĀ by the...

Regulators issue more guidance on banks’ pandemic response

WASHINGTON ā€” Federal banking regulators took a series of steps Thursday to further guide banks in supporting customers, small businesses and communities in the midst of the coronavirus...

Racing to Head Off Evictions and Foreclosures

The financial shock from the coronavirus pandemic threatens the housing security of millions of Americans, prompting federal, state and local officials ā€” and even judges and the police ā€” to move...

Trump Orders HUD to Suspend Evictions and Foreclosures

President TrumpĀ on Wednesday directed the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to suspend evictions and foreclosures through April as Americans grapple with the fallout of the...

FHFA Suspends Foreclosures and Evictions for Enterprise-Backed Mortgages

ā€‹ā€‹Washington, D.C.Ā ā€“ Today, to help borrowers who are at risk of losing their home, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has directed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) to...