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Is there racial bias baked into GSE underwriting?

Housing Wire

A recent syndicated article on racial bias from The Markup on racial bias, published by ABC news, AP, Market Watch and more, has drawn a great deal of attention from trade groups, policy makers and housing advocates with support from some and attacks from others. First , I take issue with the article for a few reasons.

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Opinion: The risk in cutting FHA insurance premiums

Housing Wire

There has been a flurry of recent articles prognosticating a decrease to Federal Housing Administration (FHA) insurance premiums. Several trade groups including the Mortgage Bankers Association have corresponded with the HUD Secretary in support of cuts. At least 137,000 of those borrowers have FHA-insured loans.

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