CONVERGENCE: Uniting for Housing Affordability

Using a unified approach, CONVERGENCE promotes more sustainable, affordable homes for purchase and rental, with a focus on underserved people and communities.

CONVERGENCE: Uniting for Housing Affordability

Using a unified approach, CONVERGENCE promotes more sustainable, affordable homes for purchase and rental, with a focus on underserved people and communities.

HUD Secretary Scott Turner: The Status Quo Is Not Good Enough

WASHINGTON–Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner outlined some of his philosophy regarding his new role during the Mortgage Bankers Association’s National Advocacy Conference April 8.

NAHB/Wells Fargo: Housing Affordability Nears Historic Low

Mortgage rates that hit a 20-plus-year high during the fourth quarter and elevated construction costs pushed housing affordability to nearly its lowest level in years, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index.

Home Buyers See Signs of Affordability Relief

Zillow, Seattle, said U.S. home values are easing down, starting to provide relief for potential home buyers facing affordability challenges.

Home Buyers on Budget Stand to Lose Big as Mortgage Rates Rise

Should mortgage interest rates go higher—and the Mortgage Bankers Association predicts they will hit 4% by the end of the year—home buyers on a fixed budget stand to lose some economic power, said Redfin, Seattle.

Tara Dugan of Tavant: Collectively Digitizing Housing Gap Solutions

Are new housing policies focused on making homeownership affordable and sustainable enough? Decades of continued discrimination due to lack of equal access for minorities responsible for the ever-growing housing gap would suggest not.