Hi, I’m Adam DeSantis. This is The Mortgage Minute, the latest news from the Mortgage Bankers Association. Last week, the full Senate voted to confirm William Pulte as Director of FHFA. Director Pulte will lead FHFA’s numerous efforts that impact MBA members. Including any actions taken jointly with the Treasury Department to release the GSEs from their current conservatorship. Additional issues of importance include the next steps on credit reporting and credit score reforms and determining the future of GSE pilot programs. MBA stands ready to work with Director Pulte and his team, the GSEs. The Federal Home Loan Banks and other industry stakeholders to increase affordable and sustainable homeownership and rental housing opportunities for all Americans, while ensuring a robust secondary mortgage market for single family and multifamily lenders of all sizes and business models and finally, MBA President and CEO Bob Broeksmit and staff will host another member only webinar this Thursday, March 20th at 3PM Eastern Time. Register at mba.org/webinars to get the latest rundown on the developments in the single family and commercial multifamily arenas under the Trump administration and MBA’s ongoing work on them. We continue to engage with the Trump administration to attempt to ensure federal government activities and future priorities are aligned to promote investment and growth in real estate markets. Again, that’s at mba.org/webinars to register. Please do so and have a great week.
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.