Year: 2025

HousingWireHousingWire A coalition of more than 100 consumer, housing and civil rights advocates have submitted a letter to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner, “strongly” opposing the department’s 2025 Interim Final Rule that changes the scope of the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule re-initialized…

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HousingWireHousingWire The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s Rural Housing Service (RHS) has implemented a final rule that allows for the financing of manufactured homes through the RHS Single Family Housing (SFH) Direct Loan Program and the SFH Guaranteed Loan Program. The rule makes existing manufactured homes meeting specific criteria eligible…

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HousingWireHousingWire A former U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) official is making explosive claims that the federal government secretly spent $21 trillion building a vast underground network of bunkers, “city infrastructure,” and transportation, allegedly designed to protect elites in the event of a catastrophic disaster. Catherine Austin Fitts,…

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HousingWireHousingWire If you’ve been in real estate for any amount of time, you’ve probably come across real estate memes that have either made you laugh – or softly cry to yourself – likely because they were so true. Chances are, you’ve thought about texting them to fellow real estate agents…

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HousingWireHousingWire Mortgage lenders and prospective borrowers looking for relief from high interest rates will need to wait longer. In a widely expected decision on Wednesday, the Federal Reserve kept rates steady at a range of 4.25% to 4.5% following its two-day meeting. This move continues a pause that the Federal…

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