HUD, VA, FHA, and Government Lender Updates

By Rob Chrisman

Posted To: Pipeline Press

Late last week someone asked me about HUD’s Equal Access Rule . A month or so ago Bankers Advisory released a notice regarding HUD’s update to equal access rules for marital status, gender identity and sexual orientation. HUD published the notice on February 2 nd in order to raise awareness of the HUD Equal Access Rule requirements for actual or perceived discrimination. The final rule was published on February 3 rd , 2012 and changes to HUD’s general rule include expanding the definition of “family” to include “a single person, who may be an elderly person, displaced person, disabled person, near-elderly person or any other single person; or a group of persons residing together, including family with or without children, elderly family, near-elderly family, disabled family, displaced family…(read more)

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