After considering a pilot program that would grant certain mortgage lenders a waiver on title insurance requirements for loans it purchased, Fannie Mae officially scrapped the program in August. The program would have effectively turned the government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) into a de facto title insurer, with the goal of allegedly reducing closing costs

By Tiana Lowe Doescher Starting next month, President Joe Biden will borrow from the middle class to pay for homeownership for the financially unreliable. In the name of “equity,” the majority of the mortgage market regulated by the Federal Housing Finance Agency will make prospective buyers with good-to-great credit scores

200 pages of radical new rules would require ‘equity plans’ that go way beyond fair housing By FOX NEWS The goal of “fair housing” would seem to be quite straightforward. As spelled out in the Fair Housing Act of 1968 — and found in realtors’ offices across the country —

By Howard Husock National Review The Democratic Party’s obsession with race — and the view that African Americans have made little or no social or economic progress since the 1960s — is about to reach into any local government that receives any federal assistance. That means some 1,250 jurisdictions that receive community-development funds, along

Las Vegas Review-Journal The Biden administration wants homebuyers who have good credit to cover the risks of lending to homebuyers who don’t. Congressional Republicans should stand united against this latest White House effort to erode the value of personal responsibility. The New York Post reported this week that Fannie Mae

The financial collapse of 2008 was hard on everyone. While most people were hit by the aftershocks, minority communities faced the full force of the crisis. Why, then, would anyone want to tempt fate and pile more risk atop the system that nearly broke 15 years ago? One of the