Tagged: Affordable Housing

The OCC and FDIC would put more weight on lending while easing community development requirements for hundreds of banks

$750 billion housing initiative aims to help 500,000 customers purchase homes, including 200,000 first-time buyers

Despite record apartment construction, HUD’s 2025 report finds that severe rent burdens continue to leave roughly 8.5 million very low-income renter households with “worst case” housing needs, underscoring that affordability remains a core challenge

The bipartisan Housing Affordability Act would let the FHA use a construction-cost index instead of CPI to set loan limits

Even one-fifth more affordable listings hasn’t moved the needle as the pervasive affordability problem demands bigger changes, analysis finds

Urban Institute proposes changing the tax code, but will policymakers and trade groups go for it?

Rule codifies equitable housing programs, GSE Plans

The GSEs increased affordable housing outreach by $180 million last year.

Redfin found in the fourth quarter that investors were busy scooping up low-cost housing.