What is the home mortgage disclosure act?
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008The United States Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (or HMDA, pronounced HUM-duh) was passed in 1975. It requires financial institutions to maintain and annually disclose data about home purchases, home purchase pre-approvals, home improvement, and refinance applications involving 1 to 4 unit and multifamily dwellings. It also requires branches and loan centers to display a HMDA poster.
HMDA was designed by the Federal Reserve Board in order to:
- Help public officials to distribute public-sector investments
- Discover if financial institutions are serving housing needs of communities
- Identify where there are discriminatory lending practices. (more…)