The National Fair Housing Alliance is pushing back against claims by the Trump administration that it’s behind most of the nation’s housing complaints, defending its role as budget negotiations threaten its funding. In a letter to Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner, the NFHA argued that the administration was using “erroneous information” to justify […]
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The Trump administration is moving swiftly to roll back Biden-era redlining enforcement. Federal courts in recent weeks have terminated five consent orders with mortgage lenders, which stemmed from redlining probes by the prior administration. The Department of Justice claimed those companies satisfied the terms of their settlements months and years before their expiration, freeing them
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Why aren’t home sales crashing as they did in 2022? Right now we have elevated mortgage rates, trade war uncertainty, rising property taxes and home insurance, terrible consumer confidence data and a downgrade of the government’s debt, among other factors. But, housing demand continues to hold up, surprising people who can’t explain why home sales
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