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Brooklyn Law School

June 27, 2017

Tuesday’s Regulatory & Legislative Roundup

By Jamila Moore

  • Ben Carson’s fellow Republicans are pleading with him to revisit HUD’s 2017-2018 budget. 23 Republican Congressmen claim there is not enough funding for homeless citizens across the country. Additionally, they urge Carson to revisit the Obama’s “Housing First” program because it eliminated a great deal of homelessness issues.
  • The Federal Housing and Finance Agency released its foreclosure prevention report for the first quarter of 2017. So far, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac participated in approximately 50,000 foreclosure prevention actions with homeowners across the U.S. Additionally, over 2 million homeowners in the U.S. have successfully had their loans modified.
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