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Black Americans still face massive housing barriers

Housing Wire

.” Earlier this month, groups including the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Mortgage Bankers Association, the National Association of Realtors, the National Association of Real Estate Brokers unveiled a plan to increase Black homeownership significantly by 2030.

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Underwriter shortage slowing the pace of private-label deals

Housing Wire

Bureau of Labor Statistics does not have a job category set up solely for mortgage underwriters, but it does track job growth, or lack of it, in a category it calls “loan officers,” which includes underwriters as a subset. Charlotte-based Canopy is a relative newcomer to the TPR market. “The