Tag Archives: Mortgage Market

Fact Sheet: Visualizing the Home Insurance Crisis

AFR shared maps and statistics with the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee prior to two hearings this month on the insurance crisis, which is compounded by climate change.

Letters to the Regulators: AFR and Public Citizen Letter to the New York State Department of Financial Services Proposal to Evaluate Nonbank Mortgage Lenders

Public Citizen and Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund submitted a comment to the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) on its proposal to evaluate nonbank mortgage lenders in New York based on their performance in meeting the credit needs of the communities where they operate, including needs related to increasing climate risks on housing

News Release: Housing Agency’s Disregard for Growing Climate Risk Will Only Deepen the Housing Affordability Crisis

Tuesday afternoon, Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte sent out a flurry of orders via tweets containing photographs of documents, including rescission of its Advisory Bulletin on Climate-Related Risk Management (Climate Risk AB)  and waiver of Equitable Housing Finance Plan (EHFP) requirements for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises).