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As part of the Biden Administration’s strategy to counter antisemitism, HUD’s Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity has joined seven other federal agencies to issue fact sheets on Title VI protections.

The Department has announced two new initiatives geared toward building new housing units, and providing tools for preserving and improving affordable housing nationwide.

The Department has announced new protections and funding to build on commitments made by the Biden Administration’s Blueprint for a Renters Bill of Rights, drafted to increase fairness within the nation’s rental marketplace.

The Biden Administration and HUD announced they will increase the transparency of housing fees, and released new research that summarizes state and local innovation to address junk fees nationwide.

A series of actions set forth by the Biden Administration aims to strike out appraisal bias and level the playing field in building generational wealth via homeownership.

To further the Biden Administration’s commitment to addressing the nation’s homelessness crisis, HUD has issued $2.8 billion in Continuum of Care Competition Awards for thousands of local homeless service and housing programs across the U.S.

In a letter to President Joe Biden, Sen. Sherrod Brown, Chair of the Senate Banking Committee, has requested that the Administration utilize a “whole-of-government” approach to address housing affordability nationwide.

The blueprint lays out ways to drive action by the federal, state, and local governments.

A coalition of housing industry trade groups have requested that the White House’s National Economic Council push the FHA to slash its mortgage insurance premium to put more money into the pockets of home buyers.

After falling back toward the 5%-mark, Freddie Mac reports that mortgage rates rose more than 40-basis points this week, as continued slowdown in economic growth weighs on the housing market.