COVID-19 Research and Data
Related Urban Institute Data and Research
- 5/15/2020 – Small Multifamily Units (Urban Institute) [PDF]
- 5/15/2020 – Can Unemployment Numbers Predict the Number of Mortgages That Will Go into Forbearance? (Urban Institute)
- 5/15/2020 – CARES Act Policies for Homeowners and Renters (Urban Institute, Chinese) [PDF]
- 5/15/2020 – CARES Act Policies for Homeowners and Renters (Urban Institute, English) [PDF]
- 5/15/2020 – CARES Act Policies for Homeowners and Renters (Urban Institute, Korean) [PDF]
- 5/15/2020 – CARES Act Policies for Homeowners and Renters (Urban Institute, Spanish) [PDF]
- 5/15/2020 – Hispanic Homeowners Will Be Critical for the Next Housing Market Recovery. Here’s Why They May Struggle (Urban Institute)
- 5/14/2020 – The Mortgage Market Has Caught the Virus (Urban Institute)
- 4/30/2020 – Facts Matter, and Public Data Are Key (Urban Institute)
- 4/23/2020 – The rent is due - we need emergency rental assistance from Congress now (The Hill/Urban Institute)
- 4/23/2020 – Don't Overlook the Importance of Unemployment Benefits for Renters (Urban Institute)
- 4/17/2020 – Lenders, Loan Channels, & Industry/Occupation by Income and Race/Ethnicity (Urban Institute) [PDF]
- 4/17/2020 – Impact of COVID-19 Forbearance: How much liquidity is needed for advances? (Urban Institute) [PDF]
- 4/17/2020 – The Pandemic is Shrinking the Mortgage Credit Box (Urban Institute)
- 4/15/2020 – The Impact of the Coronavirus on Mortgage Refinancings (Brookings Institute and Urban Institute)
- 4/13/2020 – Avoiding a COVID-19 Disaster for Renters and the Housing Market (Urban Institute)
- 4/9/2020 – A Liquidity Vehicle for Mortgage Servicing Advances Is in Consumers' Best Interest (Urban Institute)
- 4/7/2020 – COVID-19 Policy Responses Must Consider the Pandemic’s Impact on Young Renters and Renters of Color (Urban Institute)
- 4/2/2020 – The CARES Act Eviction Moratorium Covers All Federally Financed Rentals—That’s One in Four US Rental Units (Urban Institute)
- 3/27/2020 – The Price Tag for Keeping 29 Million Families in Their Homes: $162 Billion (Urban Institute)
- 3/25/2020 – We Must Act Quickly to Protect Millions of Vulnerable Renters (Urban Institute)
- 3/20/2020 – Is the 2020 Toolkit for Helping Homeowners in Crisis Better Than What We Had in 2008? (Urban Institute)
Impact on Mortgage Servicers
- 5/15/2020 – Can Unemployment Numbers Predict the Number of Mortgages That Will Go into Forbearance? (Urban Institute)
- 5/14/2020 – The Mortgage Market Has Caught the Virus(Urban Institute)
- 5/9/2020 – The Mortgage Market Never Got Fixed After 2008. Now It's Breaking Again. (Wall Street Journal)
- 5/9/2020 – How the coronavirus pandemic could forever change home buying and mortgage lending (MarketWatch)
- 5/4/2020 – COVID-19 Forbearance Relief and PLS: A Call for Self-Governance (Milken Institute)
- 5/1/2020 – Fannie Mae Releases Q1 Earnings - Shocks Market with Forbearance Estimates (MortgageMedia)
- 4/27/2020 – Some Mortgage Loan Servicers’ Websites Offer Information about CARES Act Loan Forbearance That Is Incomplete, Inconsistent, Dated, and Unclear (HUD Office of Inspector General)
- 4/22/2020 – Lender Letter to All Fannie Mae Single-Family Sellers Selling Loans in Forbearance Due to COVID-19 (Fannie Mae)
- 4/22/2020 – FHFA Announces that Enterprises will Purchase Qualified Loans in Forbearance to Keep Lending Flowing (Federal Housing Finance Agency)
- 4/22/2020 – Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac will only require servicers to advance 4 months of payments on loans in forbearance (Housing Wire)
- 4/20/2020 – Senate letter to servicers on CARES Act homeowner protections (U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren)
- 4/17/2020 – Housing and civil rights coalition demands federal liquidity facility for servicers (Housing Wire)
- 4/17/2020 – Letter from 31 consumer, civil rights, real estate, and other organizations and individuals urging Treasury and the Federal to create a liquidity facility for servicers [PDF]
- 4/15/2020 – COVID-19 Script for Servicer Use with Homeowners (Freddie Mac)
- 4/13/2020 – The COVID-19 Pandemic Requires Bigger And Different Thinking Than 2008 (Issues and Insights)
- 4/10/2020 – The Trump administration may turn a health crisis into a housing crisis (CNN Business Perspective)
- 4/10/2020 – COVID-19 Forbearance Script for Servicers Use with Homeowners (Fannie Mae)
- 4/10/2020 – In a Major Credit Tightening Move, JPMorgan Chase Caps Warehouse Credit (Inside Mortgage Finance)
- 4/9/2020 – A Liquidity Vehicle for Mortgage Servicing Advances Is in Consumers' Best Interest (Urban Institute)
- 4/7/2020 – Calabria: No Servicer Liquidity Facility Coming, but GSEs May Pull Servicing from Struggling Companies (Housing Wire)
- 4/3/2020 – Mortgage servicers teeter near crisis that regulators saw coming (American Banker)
- 4/1/2020 – A Federal Liquidity Solution for the Mortgage Servicing Industry (Housing Wire)
- 3/27/2020 – Ginnie Mae Addresses Servicer Liquidity Issues (Ginnie Mae)
Impact on Homeowners
- 5/15/2020 – CARES Act Policies for Homeowners and Renters (Urban Institute, Chinese) [PDF]
- 5/15/2020 – CARES Act Policies for Homeowners and Renters (Urban Institute, English) [PDF]
- 5/15/2020 – CARES Act Policies for Homeowners and Renters (Urban Institute, Korean) [PDF]
- 5/15/2020 – CARES Act Policies for Homeowners and Renters (Urban Institute, Spanish) [PDF]
- 5/15/2020 – Can Unemployment Numbers Predict the Number of Mortgages That Will Go into Forbearance? (Urban Institute)
- 5/14/2020 – FHFA Extends Foreclosure and Eviction Moratorium (FHFA)
- 5/13/2020 – FHFA Announces Payment Deferral as New Repayment Option for Homeowners in COVID-19 Forbearance Plans (FHFA)
- 5/12/2020 – CFPB, FHFA, & HUD Launch Joint Mortgage and Housing Assistance Website for Americans Impacted by COVID-19 (CFPB)
- 5/12/2020 – Forbearance becomes a ‘Scarlet Letter’ on credit reports (HousingWire)
- 5/5/2020 – Hispanic Homeowners Will Be Critical for the Next Housing Market Recovery. Here’s Why They May Struggle. (Urban Institute)
- 5/5/2020 – New home listings in April were nearly cut in half (HousingWire)
- 5/4/2020 – Sizing the Risk of Property Tax Revenue Disruption to Municipalities (CoreLogic)
- 5/1/2020 – Disaster-Related Credit Reporting Options Research Brief (FinRegLab, Inc.)
- 5/1/2020 – Mortgage and Housing Assistance During the Coronavirus National Emergency (CFPB)
- 4/27/2020 – Share of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Increases to 6.99% (Mortgage Bankers Association)
- Sustaining Homeownership in a Crisis: An Interactive Guide for Homeowners (Freddie Mac)
- We’re Here to Help: Consumer Information (Mortgage Bankers Association)
- 4/24/2020 – Credit Availability and the COVID-19 Crisis [PDF]
- 4/24/2020 – Struggling Borrowers Want To Pause Their Mortgage Payments. It Hasn’t Been Easy(Wall Street Journal)
- 4/23/2020 – Directory of Servicer Contacts (National Housing Resource Center)
- 4/23/3030 – Getting a Mortgage-Payment Break Isn’t the Boon Many Expected (Wall Street Journal)
- 4/17/2020 – More than 2.9 million homeowners already in COVID-19-related forbearance plans according to Black Knight's McDash Flash data set, represents 5.5% of all mortgages (Black Knight, Inc.)
- 4/17/2020 – The Pandemic is Shrinking the Mortgage Credit Box(Urban Institute)
- 4/15/2020 – The Impact of the Coronavirus on Mortgage Refinancings(Brookings Institute and Urban Institute)
- 4/7/2020 – MBA Survey Shows Spike in Loans in Forbearance, Servicer Call Volume(Mortgage Bankers Association)
- 4/6/2020 – Guide to Coronavirus Mortgage Relief Options(Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)
- 4/1/2020 – Mortgage Help Is Available during the Coronavirus Pandemic, but What’s Offered Can Vary—Here’s What You Need to Know(CNBC)
- 3/27/2020 – The Price Tag for Keeping 29 Million Families in Their Homes: $162 Billion(Urban Institute)
- 3/24/2020 – Mortgage Industry Lays Out Its Case for Widespread Coronavirus Emergency Relief(Housing Wire)
- 3/24/2020 – Act with Speed and Focus to Protect Homeowners and Renters(Mortgage Media)
- 3/22/2020 – Letter from seven organizations to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Federal Reserve, Federal Housing Finance Agency, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the US Treasury, March 22, 2020[PDF]
- 3/20/2020 – Is the 2020 Toolkit for Helping Homeowners in Crisis Better Than What We Had in 2008?(Urban Institute)
Impact on Renters
- 5/15/2020 – Small Multifamily Units (Urban Institute) [PDF]
- 5/15/2020 – CARES Act Policies for Homeowners and Renters (Urban Institute, Chinese) [PDF]
- 5/15/2020 – CARES Act Policies for Homeowners and Renters (Urban Institute, English) [PDF]
- 5/15/2020 – CARES Act Policies for Homeowners and Renters (Urban Institute, Korean) [PDF]
- 5/15/2020 – CARES Act Policies for Homeowners and Renters (Urban Institute, Spanish) [PDF]
- 4/23/2020 – The rent is due - we need emergency rental assistance from Congress now (The Hill/Urban Institute)
- 4/23/2020 – Don't Overlook the Importance of Unemployment Benefits for Renters (Urban Institute)
- 4/13/2020 – Avoiding a COVID-19 Disaster for Renters and the Housing Market(Urban Institute)
- 4/7/2020 – COVID-19 Policy Responses Must Consider the Pandemic’s Impact on Young Renters and Renters of Color(Urban Institute)
- 4/2/2020 – The CARES Act Eviction Moratorium Covers All Federally Financed Rentals—That’s One in Four US Rental Units(Urban Institute)
- 3/27/2020 – The Price Tag for Keeping 29 Million Families in Their Homes: $162 Billion(Urban Institute)
- 3/25/2020 – We Must Act Quickly to Protect Millions of Vulnerable Renters(Urban Institute)
- 3/24/2020 – Act with Speed and Focus to Protect Homeowners and Renters(Mortgage Media)
- 3/2020 – Don’t Forget America’s 43.8 Million Renters(Amherst Capital Management) [PDF]