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Trump administration plans deep cuts to homeless housing program

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The Trump administration is preparing to slash funding for permanent housing programs aimed at addressing homelessness and shifting billions toward transitional housing that requires work or service participation, according to a report from Politico. The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Continuum of Care program — the nation’s largest initiative to house people experiencing […]

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Trump administration plans deep cuts to homeless housing program

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The Trump administration is preparing to slash funding for permanent housing programs aimed at addressing homelessness and shifting billions toward transitional housing that requires work or service participation, according to a report from Politico. The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Continuum of Care program — the nation’s largest initiative to house people experiencing

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Government shutdown looms large for real estate, mortgage

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Government shutdowns have repeatedly rippled through the real estate industry over the past three decades, delaying loans, snarling flood insurance and rattling buyer confidence. A federal shutdown is days away as of Friday — threatening paychecks for hundreds of thousands of workers, freezing key reports like monthly jobs data and placing a layer of uncertainty

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CFPB drops enforcement actions against two more lenders

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Key Insight: Washington Federal Bank and Planet Home Lending are only the latest in a long list of businesses against which the CFPB has terminated its consent orders. Supporting Data: Since Donald Trump returned to the White House, the CFPB has dropped dozens of enforcement actions and initiated only two. Expert quote: “It’s clear that

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HUD rolls back Fair Housing enforcement, internal records show

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Internal documents and interviews reviewed by The New York Times reveal that Trump administration officials at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) have sharply limited enforcement of the Fair Housing Act — a cornerstone civil rights law designed to prevent discrimination in housing. Emails, memos and testimony from current and former employees obtained

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Trump wants quarterly earnings reports to become a relic of the past

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President Donald Trump on Monday renewed his call for U.S. companies to move away from quarterly earnings reports, building upon an idea he floated during his first term. Since 1970, the nearly 3,700 publicly traded companies in the U.S. — including mortgage and real estate companies — have been required to disclose their financial results

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Waters urges Fed independence, FHFA probe in Trump-Cook fight

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Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, sent two letters this week that seek investigations into actions by President Donald Trump at the Federal Reserve. One letter was sent to John Allen, the acting inspector general of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), while the other was addressed French

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Trump signs law banning trigger leads

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President Donald Trump on Friday signed the Homebuyers Privacy Protection Act (H.R. 2808), establishing a nationwide ban on the abusive use of trigger leads beginning in March 2026. The legislation had broad mortgage industry support. It cleared the House in June and the Senate by unanimous consent in August, with bipartisan sponsorship from Reps. John

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Trump’s ‘liberation day’ tariffs ruled illegal, but stay in place for now

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The sweeping tariffs President Trump implemented on April 2 have been ruled illegal by a federal appeals court that said Trump did not have the power under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to levy tariffs. However, the court is allowing the tariffs to stay in place until a lower court rules on whether the

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Lisa Cook files suit against Trump, Powell and Fed Board of Governors

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Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook filed suit against President Trump in a federal court in Washington, D.C. on Thursday. The lawsuit follows Trump’s announcement on Monday that he was attempting to fire Cook over allegations she committed occupancy fraud by designating two different properties as her primary residence in 2021. Fed Chair Jerome Powell and

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