The nation’s top housing regulator took “unprecedented” steps to hinder investigations by its inspector general, the watchdog told lawmakers in a report published Monday.

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at bringing down housing costs in a bid to show that his administration is addressing voters’ affordability concerns in the final sprint to the midterm elections.

The Treasury Department on Thursday proposed new regulations to bar large institutional investors from buying up single-family homes, the latest step in the process to implement the most controversial section of the sweeping bipartisan housing law passed this summer.

A proposed rule change by the Trump administration could jeopardize billions of dollars of housing investment in rural areas and small towns – potentially undermining the White House’s efforts to boost housing supply in order to bring down costs just as mortgage rates soar.

In the region that’s often thought of as a refuge from the US housing squeeze, prices are rising and would-be buyers are feeling boxed out.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency is planning to direct Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac within weeks to require lenders to pull credit data from two major credit reporting bureaus instead of three, according to a person familiar with the plans.

The watchdog for the nation’s top housing regulator says it will be forced to cut up to 80% of its staff and end most criminal probes as a result of dramatic budget cuts announced late Wednesday by Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte.

Barely six weeks out from the midterm elections, housing costs that many Americans have long said are too high are looking even more out of reach.

The Trump administration is trying to help Americans better afford homes by cutting regulation, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner said Thursday on Bloomberg Television.

Home prices across the US continue to soar, fueling frustration for buyers and renters. Are you one of them? Our reporters want to hear your story.

The White House is considering throwing its weight behind a push to increase a capital gains tax exemption for primary home sales and cut levies on investments ahead of the midterm election — changes that would disproportionately flow to some of the wealthiest US households.

Two key Senate Democrats are pushing Bill Pulte to prove that he’s still fulfilling his duties as the nation’s top housing regulator now that he’s also taken over as acting spy chief — or resign instead.

A new law adopted on July 11 marks the most significant effort in decades to boost the US housing supply.

A sweeping housing bill became law on Saturday without Donald Trump’s signature, or any White House fanfare, after the president soured on a package of dozens of affordability provisions that he derided as “a yawn.”

President Donald Trump said he would not sign a bipartisan housing bill in protest over lawmakers declining to approve a separate voter-ID bill he has prioritized.

The Supreme Court’s decision Monday to leave Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook in her job for now is a blow to the Trump administration’s monthslong crusade to fire her over alleged mortgage fraud.

President Donald Trump’s decision to back out of signing a major housing bill provided a dramatic last-minute twist to lawmakers’ efforts to address Americans’ cost-of-living concerns. The 21st Century Road to Housing Act, which passed both chambers of Congress by a huge margin, is designed to spur housing construction and, in the long run, bring relief to consumers struggling with lofty prices and mortgage rates.

The US House of Representatives on Tuesday passed the most significant housing legislation in decades on a 358-32 vote, sending to President Donald Trump’s desk a bill with rare bipartisan backing that’s aimed at showing action on voters’ affordability concerns.

The Senate passed a sweeping housing bill on Monday, bringing Washington one step closer to enacting the most significant housing legislation in a generation.

Leaders in the US House and Senate announced a deal Tuesday on a sweeping housing bill, ending a months-long standoff between the chambers over competing versions of the measure.