Nearly a third of Realtors have experienced a situation that made them fear for their personal safety or the safety of their personal information, and 43 percent of Realtors choose to carry self-defense weapons on the job.
That’s according to the National Association of Realtors’ 2018 Member Safety Report.
Read on for details of the report, which surveyed more than 3,000 Realtors about their safety experiences.
Renters are three times more likely to need financial assistance to evacuate during a major disaster than those who own their own homes.
That’s according to the new 2017 American Housing Survey released by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the U.S. Census Bureau, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Read on for more details from the survey, released in time for National Preparedness Month.
The Fair Housing Act standard on disparate impact is dated and should be amended, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) and eight other trade groups.
Meanwhile, 17 state attorneys general support keeping the Disparate Impact Rule that protects people against lending practices that do not mention race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability or familial status, but produce a discriminatory effect.
Read on to learn the stance which both sides take.
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is offering new foreclosure prevention options to residents of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands who are struggling in the aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
The options will allow those with delinquent FHA-insured mortgages easier access to bring their mortgages current without increasing their interest rates or monthly payments.
Read on for more details on the FHA’s plan to help reduce foreclosures while minimizing losses to the Insurance Fund.
Citigroup has been fined $8.6 million by the Federal Reserve Board for engaging in unsafe banking practices by improperly executing residential mortgage documents.
The penalty addresses the deficient execution and notarization of certain mortgage-related affidavits prepared by a non-bank subsidiary. The Federal Reserve Board also announced the recent termination of a 2011 separate enforcement action against Citigroup and CitiFinancial related to residential mortgage loan servicing.
Read on for details from the court order.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has approved voluntary compliance/conciliation agreements with housing providers in California, Idaho and Hawaii that were accused of denying reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities.
The housing providers failed to allow tenants to have assistance animals and denied a request to move to a ground-floor unit due to mobility issues.
Read on for more details.
An Alabama public housing board accused of disability discrimination has entered into a voluntary compliance/conciliation agreement with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
The case began when a woman with disabilities filed a complaint with HUD alleging the Mobile Housing Board denied her request for a Housing Choice Voucher.
Read on to find out how the board agreed to resolve the claims.
The House Financial Services Committee recently approved bipartisan bills to support regulatory flexibility, market expansion and corporate transparency.
The package of bills address a variety of topics, including small business capital-raising, and investor protections. The legislation includes a bill designed to correct an issue for nonprofit organizations that was caused by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act.
Read on for more information about the bills and reaction from the committee leaders on both sides of the aisle.
Senate judiciary leaders are urging the Supreme Court to release same-day audio recordings of all arguments heard before the high court.
The court recently released same-day audio of arguments in a case disputing the president’s authority to issue a travel ban, but generally releases audio only at the end of the week.
Read on to see why Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), a member of the Judiciary Committee, are arguing for greater transparency in the court’s work.
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