Government refinance applications increased by 42% over the week, according to the MBA’s Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending Feb. 28, 2025. This jump was mainly due to the dip in ...

Federal layoffs may soon come for America’s largest mortgage insurer, a powerful engine of the country’s housing market. On Tuesday, Bloomberg reported that President Donald Trump’s administration ...

EXCLUSIVE — The Department of Housing and Urban Development took the first step to fire a HUD lawyer who publicly expressed concern that HUD is no longer enforcing the Fair Housing Act, with the ...

Because they’re insured by the federal government, FHA loans help lenders provide mortgages to low-credit-score borrowers or others who wouldn’t qualify for conventional loans. In 2026, the maximum ...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) this week unveiled a new website, explaining that as much as 90% of the material from the former site has been cut to eliminate redundancies ...

A message on the Department of Housing and Urban Development's website blaming "the Radical Left" for the government shutdown has prompted legal complaints and accusations of a Hatch Act violation.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has a total workforce of roughly 9,600 staffers. Last week, the new Trump-appointed HUD director, Scott Turner, was ordered to lay off about ...

Allysia Finley’s Feb. 24 column “Biden’s Mortgage ‘Relief’ Fuels Higher Housing Prices” (Life Science) doesn’t adequately describe mortgage servicers and the crucial role they play in ensuring a ...

HUD released a 2025 shutdown contingency plan for a lapse in funding on September 29 As the federal government entered a partial shutdown at 12:01 a.m. on Oct. 1, the U.S. Department of Housing and ...