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The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The government agencies that dominate mortgage finance 16 currently require a credit report from each of the three major credit reporting bureaus, 17 known as a “tri-merge” report. The FHFA, from its founding in 2008 to 2021, was an independent regulator. 14 A good glimpse of this occurred in New York State in 2017.

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Manufactured Housing Is a Good Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing - Except When It’s Not: Q&A on Eight Key Policy Topics (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

This is because, being secondary firms by law, the government mortgage agencies are only allowed to deal directly with primary market lenders –in this case, the relatively small number of MH structure-only lenders. 4] The three levels of quality are described in a 2017 article by Mobile Home Living ( [link] ). [5]

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