“Our organizations are committed to increasing homeownership rates for all people of color and closing the homeownership gap, but we cannot do so when we continue to lose more homeowners to COVID-19-related financial hardships.”
–From an MBA/trade group letter to President Biden requesting a $25 billion Housing Assistance Fund to assist homeowners at risk.
This year MBA will hold its Commercial Real Estate Finance/Multifamily Convention & Expo and Commercial/Multifamily Servicing and Technology Conference together in one virtual event on February 3-4.
The Mortgage Bankers Association is accepting nominations for the MBA NewsLink 2020 Tech All-Star Awards. Nominations will be accepted through Friday, Jan. 29.
The Mortgage Bankers Association’s popular three-part virtual series, Voices: Courageous Conversations with Women of Color, concludes on Tuesday, Feb. 2 with “Together We Rise.”
Brian D. Pannell, Chief eServices Executive with DocMagic, Torrance, Calif., examines key changes the mortgage industry has seen over the past year.
There was more to 2020 for lenders than profit. What was actually going on was a new model being put to the test.
Robert D. Broeksmit, CMB, President & CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association, issued the following statement congratulating President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on their historic inauguration.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Kathy Kraninger announced her resignation yesterday effective immediately, paving the way for President Joe Biden’s nominee, Rohit Chopra, to take over the agency.
CoreLogic, Irvine, Calif., said single-family rent growth reached 3.7 percent in November, the highest annual growth seen since June 2016.
HUD said this morning it will permit individuals classified under the “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” program (DACA) with the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Service and are legally permitted to work in the U.S. to apply for mortgages backed by FHA.
