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On May 2, a coalition of nineteen attorneys general submitted a letter to HUD opposing its interim final rule (IFR) which would revise the agency’s duty to affirmatively further fair housing. The coalition, led by attorneys...more
Recently, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued Mortgagee Letter 2025-13 to revise the exclusive listing period for certain parties in connection with HUD real estate owned (REO) properties, and...more
At the tail end of the Biden administration, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) published Mortgagee Letter 2025-06, which was tilted Updates to Servicing, Loss Mitigation, and Claims. The 251-page mortgagee letter...more
In a significant policy shift under the Trump administration, the new Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte issued an order on March 25, 2025 terminating special purpose credit programs (SPCPs) supported...more
On March 19, the FHA rescinded three mortgagee letters related to appraisal policies in its Single Family Housing programs through Mortgagee Letter 2025-08. The letter rescinds FHA Single Family Housing policy changes issued...more
On October 30, 2023, the White House announced that President Biden had issued an Executive Order regarding artificial intelligence (“AI”). The Executive Order was accompanied by a Fact Sheet summarizing the eight policy...more
Under the Fair Housing Act, it is unlawful for a seller, lessor, or financier of housing to discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity), disability, familial status, or...more
As previously reported, recently a US District Court granted a preliminary injunction preventing the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from implementing new requirements for government-provided down payment...more
This week, HUD announced that it intends to amend its 2015 regulations on affirmatively furthering fair housing, or AFFH. HUD is giving the public 60 days from publication of its advance notice of proposed rulemaking to...more
Last week, HUD issued a notice extending until after October 31, 2020, the deadline for cities and other participating jurisdictions to submit assessments of fair housing (AFH), the new reporting and assessment tool required...more
Ballard Spahr submitted comments in response to HUD’s request for assistance in identifying existing regulations that may be outdated, ineffective, or excessively burdensome. ...more
The new HUD administration has been pretty quiet on the regulatory front, with only a handful of regulations and notices issued since January. That may change soon. HUD is hard at work identifying regulatory changes that...more