Census Bureau: New Data on Community Resilience Released
The U.S. Census Bureau today released the Community Resilience Estimates on <www.census.gov> to measure the ability of a population to absorb, endure and recover from the impacts of disasters, including weather-related and disease-related hazard events such as COVID-19. The new experimental data product will be available through a tool which shows risk level by state, county and tract. These…
FDIC: Agency Unveils Redesigned Website
For the first time in nearly a decade, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) today unveiled a comprehensive overhaul of the agency’s flagship website. The newly redesigned FDIC.gov offers consumers, bankers, and analysts easier access to the agency’s most popular content, including information critical to financial institutions and consumers impacted by COVID-19. FDIC’s homepage prominently features a…
Census Bureau: Household Pulse Survey Weekly Data Released
The Census Bureau today released new data from the experimental Household Pulse Survey. The Household Pulse Survey is the result of an effort by the Census Bureau and other federal statistical agencies to document temporal trends in how individuals are experiencing business curtailment and closures, stay-at-home orders, school closures, changes in the availability of consumer goods…
HUD: White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council Delivers Report to President Trump
Report Outlines Best Practices and Features Examples of Community Revitalization Occurring Across the Nation in Opportunity Zones Dr. Ben Carson, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and Chairman of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council (Council), delivered a report this month to President Donald J. Trump outlining Opportunity Zone best practices and…
OCC: Report Shows Mortgage Performance Remains Stable in First Quarter 2020
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) reported the performance of first-lien mortgages in the federal banking system remained stable during the first quarter of 2020. The OCC Mortgage Metrics Report, First Quarter 2020 showed 96.5 percent of mortgages included in the report were current and performing at the end of the quarter, compared to…
FHFA: 2019 Report Issued to Congress
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today released its annual Report to Congress, covering calendar year 2019. The report addresses several topics related to the fulfillment of FHFA’s statutory responsibilities and the financial condition of FHFA’s regulated entities: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) and the Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBanks). The report makes recommendations…
Census Bureau: 2020 Census Workers to Count Population Experiencing Homelessness
The U.S. Census Bureau has announced the new schedule for counting people experiencing homelessness in the 2020 Census. The operation was originally scheduled for March 30, March 31 and April 1, but health and safety concerns with COVID-19 forced us to delay these activities. Between September 22 and 24, the Census Bureau now plans to…
CDFI Fund: Application Demand for FY 2020 Round of CDFI Program and NACA Program Released
The fiscal year (FY) 2020 application round for the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund’s (CDFI Fund) Community Development Financial Institutions Program (CDFI Program) and Native American CDFI Assistance Program (NACA Program) closed on April 30, 2020. 588 organizations from across the country requested a total of $535.4 million in awards. Specifically:* 337 organizations requested $337.9 million…
FDIC: Annual Report Issued on Efforts to Preserve and Promote Minority Depository Institutions
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) today released a report submitted to Congress that chronicles the efforts the agency made to preserve and promote Minority Depository Institutions (MDIs) in 2019. This report provides a summary profile of MDIs as of the end of 2019; a description of the FDIC’s MDI program; and detailed information on…
HUD and Census Bureau: Findings of Rental Housing Finance Survey Released
Survey Finds Nearly Half of Rental Units are in Rental Properties with Four or Fewer Units Of the 48.2 million rental housing units, nearly 49 percent are located in rental properties of one to four units, according to the latest Rental Housing Finance Survey (RHFS) data released today by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development…