2026 Changes in Housing Relief

Sec. 3. Modernization of Home Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) Data Collection and Disclosure. (a) The CFPB shall think about, as appropriate and constant with applicable law, proposing modifications to Guideline C to raise the asset threshold for exemption from HMDA information collection and reporting requirements for smaller banks, to leave out questions from the scope of HMDA, and to ensure that disclosures protect privacy and decrease concerns, consisting of insufficiently tailored, costly, and complex software application and training needed for reporting monetary institutions.

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4. Capital and Liquidity Alignment. (a) The Vice Chairman for Supervision of the Federal Reserve, the Chairman of the NCUA Board, the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the FDIC, the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Firm (FHFA) will consider, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law: (i) modifying capital guidelines, constant with proper risk-management requirements, to tailor danger weights for all banks, including neighborhood banks and other smaller banks, for portfolio home loans, servicing rights, and warehouse credit lines to the product credit danger of the direct exposure; (ii) modernizing collateral assessment and transfer systems in between the Federal Reserve and Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBs); (iii) broadening access to longerdated FHLB advances connected to residential home mortgage properties; (iv) producing targeted FHLB liquidity programs for entrylevel real estate, owneroccupied purchase loans, and little residential contractors; (v) accelerating security boarding and evaluation processes through standardized information and digital documentation; and (vi) refocusing the FHLBs' Inexpensive Real estate Program on faster-cycle execution and higher financial leverage for small and owner-occupied housing projects.

(c) Within 120 days of the date of this order, the Director of the FHFA, in assessment with the heads of other pertinent executive departments and agencies, shall send a report to the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and the Director of the Workplace of Management and Budget on the performance of national real estate finance markets.

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Sec. 5. Building And Construction and Housing Supply. (a) The Vice Chairman for Supervision of the Federal Reserve, the Director of the CFPB, the Chairman of the NCUA Board, the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the FDIC, and the Comptroller of the Currency, shall think about, as appropriate and consistent with appropriate law, modifying supervisory assistance both to exclude one-to four-family residential development and building and construction lending from commercial property concentration assistance and to ensure supervisory expectations support accountable building financing by neighborhood banks.

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6. Appraisal Modernization. (a) The Vice Chairman for Supervision of the Federal Reserve, the Director of the CFPB, the Chairman of the NCUA Board, the Chairperson of Board of Directors of the FDIC, the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Director of the FHFA will think about, as suitable and consistent with applicable law and their statutory authorities: (i) modernizing appraisal policies and guidance to broaden using alternative evaluation designs, desktop and hybrid appraisals, and synthetic intelligence evaluation tools; (ii) streamlining appraiser credentials requirements; and (iii) decreasing appraisal requirements for low-risk transactions, including low loan-to-value refinancing and smallbalance loans; and setting clear appraisal timelines.

Digital Home Mortgage Modernization. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of HUD, the Secretary of VA, and the Director of the FHFA shall think about, as proper and constant with applicable law: (i) getting rid of unneeded wetsignature requirements for disclosures, applications, closing documents, and comparable files; (ii) standardizing approval of electronic signatures, e-notes, and remote online notarization; and (iii) promoting digital mortgage standards.

8. Maintenance and Supervisory Certainty. (a) The Secretary of HUD, the Vice Chairman for Guidance of the Federal Reserve, the Director of the CFPB, the Chairman of the NCUA Board, the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the FDIC, and the Comptroller of the Currency will consider, as suitable and consistent with applicable law: (i) lining up supervisory expectations to support portfolio mortgage servicing as a core neighborhood banking function; extending curefirst standards to goodfaith maintenance errors; streamlining loss mitigation requirements; and issuing a proposed guideline supplying exemptions from complex mortgage services for smaller banks; and (ii) ensuring that supervisory assessments of carrying out, prudently underwritten portfolio loans do not concentrate on technical flaws or depend on progressing supervisory analyses.

9. Enforcement. (a) The Vice Chairman for Supervision of the Federal Reserve, the Director of the CFPB, the Chairman of the NCUA Board, the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the FDIC, and the Comptroller of the Currency will think about, as suitable and consistent with appropriate law, promulgating a policy against enforcement actions for offenses of customer financial laws that: (i) discourages enforcing civil monetary penalties, except where the underlying infractions are willful, understanding, or careless; (ii) thinks about great corporate conduct, including a bank's correction of good-faith, technical compliance errors; and (iii) allows organizations a sensible chance for self-identification and remediation of proper compliance matters.