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The FHA-insured Home Equity Conversion Mortgage, or HECM, was signed into law on February 5, 1988, by President Ronald Reagan as part of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987. [18] The first HECM was given to Marjorie Mason of Fairway, Kansas, in 1989 by James B. Nutter and Company. [19]
[2] If for example a state plans to use $1 million of HOME funds during the year, HUD provides $750,000 (75%) and the State must provide $250,000 (25%) for the program to achieve the $1 million goal. This compliance requirement is known as "matching." States can achieve this by either donating non-federal cash (e.g., cash from operations—not ...
Section 2, defining "housing for older persons", amends Section 807(b)(2)(C) of the Fair Housing Act, [5] as that being intended and operated for occupancy by persons 55 years of age or older, and-- (i) at least 80 percent of the occupied units are occupied by at least one person who is 55 years of age or older
Reverse mortgages come with age, residency, equity and debt guidelines the borrower must meet to get approved. If you don’t qualify for a reverse mortgage, a home equity loan, cash-out refinance ...
The idea of a department of Urban Affairs was proposed in a 1957 report to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, led by New York governor Nelson A. Rockefeller. [3] The idea of a department of Housing and Urban Affairs was taken up by President John F. Kennedy, with Pennsylvania Senator and Kennedy ally Joseph S. Clark Jr. listing it as one of the top seven legislative priorities for the ...
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA), also known as the Office of Housing within the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), is a United States government agency founded by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, established in part by the National Housing Act of 1934.
HUD-1 Settlement Statement. The HUD-1 Settlement Statement is a standardized mortgage lending form in use in the United States of America on which creditors or their closing agents itemize all charges imposed on buyers and sellers in consumer credit mortgage transactions. The HUD-1 (or a similar variant called the HUD-1A) is used primarily for ...
The United States Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (commonly referred to as HERA) was designed primarily to address the subprime mortgage crisis.It authorized the Federal Housing Administration to guarantee up to $300 billion in new 30-year fixed rate mortgages for subprime borrowers if lenders wrote down principal loan balances to 90 percent of current appraisal value.