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President Trump is rolling out plans to tackle housing affordability. Along with a series of policy proposals, he continues to pressure the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates.

While President Trump’s recent order could persuade lenders to issue more mortgages at lower interest rates, the effects could be small and short-lived.

The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage has a number of advantages for homeowners and investors. But it wasn’t always the norm.

They don’t make loans themselves, but they help banks make more of them.

Young adults increasingly need help from a parent, or other older adult, to buy their first home. The tough market is removing some of the stigma.

Heather Vogell of ProPublica finds short term-oriented corporate investors are increasingly becoming apartment landlords.

Demand for vacation homes has crowded out would-be homeowners, but will higher fees make a dent?

A plan to return the mortgage giants to private control was complicated by the pandemic’s economic risks.

A new “adverse market fee” kicked in this week, despite declining interest rates.

The White House released its plan to end government stewardship of the companies that control half of all mortgages in the U.S.