The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently issued its Semiannual Report to Congress for the period from April through September 2018....more
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In a July 2018 interview with HousingWire, FHA Commissioner Brian Montgomery stated that the FHA wants to bring big banks back to the FHA lending space by increasing transparency and decreasing False Claims Act (FCA)...more
On April 4, 2017, the Mortgagee Review Board (MRB) of the U.S. Department for Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published an entry in the Federal Register titled "Mortgagee Review Board: Administrative Actions." The entry...more
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has issued an alert on appraiser identity theft. The alert details cases in three states where identity thieves illegally used...more
The HUD Office of Inspector General (OIG) released an audit on July 9, 2015, in which it opined that loans that included down payment assistance programs from state housing agencies ran afoul of HUD regulations. (OIG Report...more