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Housing coalition publishes recommendations for GSEs’ ‘Duty to Serve’ plans

Housing Wire

The Underserved Mortgage Markets Coalition (UMMC), a coalition of 32 housing groups initially convened by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy , published a report on Wednesday that recommended actions for the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. mortgage finance system.

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Opinion: It’s time for bi-partisanship on affordable manufactured housing homeownership

Housing Wire

As the 118 th Congress begins, we return to a divided government in Washington. Last year was challenging for housing and mortgage markets. For the first time in many years, we experienced falling home prices, in part due to skyrocketing mortgage rates which almost doubled from around 3.5% a year ago to nearly 7% today.