Hi, I’m Adam DeSanctis. This is the Mortgage Minute, the latest news from the Mortgage Bankers Association. Last week, MBA President and CEO Bob Broeksmit, Chief Lobbyist Bill Kilmer, and members of MBA’s lobbying and policy teams hosted a Mortgage Action Alliance webinar on the latest developments in the single family and commercial multifamily arenas under the Trump administration and MBA’s ongoing response to them. More than 650 attendees received intel on what is happening and how MBA’s engaging with the Trump administration on its policy priorities, staffing plans, and potential next steps at FHA, Ginnie Mae, the CFPB, and more. Broeksmit highlighted MBA’s recent successes in advocating on behalf of members interests, including the swift response to ensure government lending programs were excluded from a January federal spending freeze, and getting the CFPB to clarify its intent to continue to publish APORT data every Thursday amidst its ongoing pause of all activities. Attendees also learned of the top priorities and issues to be covered at MBA’s upcoming National Advocacy Conference taking place April 8th to the 9th in DC including the potential for GSE release, trigger leads, housing tax policy, legislation to increase housing supply, property insurance, and more. Register for NAC today at mba.org/nac. MBA is monitoring the ongoing developments at the federal agencies and is engaging with the administration to better understand the review of these agencies activities and future priorities. MBA plans to host additional town hall webinars as developments arise. These are open to all members and the invite usually comes via email. That’s it for this week. Thank you for listening!
Adam DeSanctis, VP, Communication at Mortgage Bankers Association
As a strategic public affairs and communications executive with nearly two decades of experience, Adam has deep expertise in strategy, management, and media relations. He is widely considered to be an expert in a variety of communications, including advocacy, brand, executive, crisis, grassroots, and social media. In his career, he has been the MBA spokesperson on a wide variety of real estate research and advocacy-related issues, promoted MBA research and advocacy efforts to financial, political, and trade industry media and on MBA’s social media channels, and secured media opportunities for MBA leadership on key real estate trends and issues, generated media coverage for MBA’s research and data on mortgage applications, credit availability, homebuilder applications, mortgage forbearance/delinquencies, commercial real estate originations, and forecasts, and other industry analysis, developed key strategic initiatives for MBA’s organizational public affairs plan, media relations and member communications support for mPower, MBA’s Opens Doors Foundation and MBA’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs.