Hannah Lang is a Washington-based reporter who writes about federal mortgage policy and the U.S. housing finance system for American Banker and National Mortgage News. She is a former multimedia reporter for the Capital News Service and a graduate of the University of Maryland at College Park.
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Early adopters took digital mortgages from concept to reality. What will it take for everyone else to catch up?
September 10 -
The Dodd-Frank Act requires that one of the five nonvoting members of the Financial Stability Oversight Council be a state banking supervisor.
By Hannah LangSeptember 7 -
The proposal by Reps. Jeb Hensarling and John Delaney is a sign that a bipartisan consensus is building on how to move on from Fannie and Freddie.
By Hannah LangSeptember 7 -
The proposal by Reps. Jeb Hensarling and John Delaney is a sign that a bipartisan consensus is building on how to move on from Fannie and Freddie.
By Hannah LangSeptember 6 -
The departing House Financial Services chair unveiled a bill with Democrat John Delaney to repeal Fannie and Freddie's charters and establish Ginnie Mae as a backstop.
By Hannah LangSeptember 6 -
As the demand for home rentals continues to rise, regulatory burdens could decrease the multifamily housing supply and drive up costs, witnesses said at a congressional hearing.
By Hannah LangSeptember 5 -
The appointments are on top of other recent personnel changes under Chairman Jelena McWilliams, who took the reins of the agency in June.
By Hannah LangSeptember 4 -
The agencies had proposed revisions designed to make compliance less complex, but banks have expressed concern that the plan could have the opposite effect.
By Hannah LangSeptember 4 -
Maybe political winds or another downturn will spark housing finance reform. But 10 years after the conservatorships began, the companies are still in perpetual limbo.
By Hannah LangSeptember 3 -
The Supreme Court upheld using “disparate impact” over three years ago. But with HUD weighing a policy change, banks and advocacy groups are still at odds over the court decision.
By Hannah LangAugust 29 -
The Congressional Budget Office has found that restructuring the mortgage market would save the government billions of dollars but may increase the cost of housing.
By Hannah LangAugust 27 -
Credit union groups are praising the committee's approval of Kathy Kraninger's nomination to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the face of strong Democratic opposition. Nominations for other positions also moved forward.
August 23 -
The committee approved the nomination of Kathy Kraninger to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, despite strong Democratic opposition, as well as President Trump's picks for Ginnie Mae, the Export-Import Bank and several other positions.
August 23 -
The employee who made sexual harassment allegations against the agency’s director also claims Watt withheld her pay increase after she refused his advances.
By Hannah LangAugust 21 -
As director of the Fed's Division of Research and Statistics, David Wilcox is responsible for briefing the Federal Open Market Committee on the outlook for the national economy.
By Hannah LangAugust 20 -
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., released a survey of lending practices that he said point to practices such as forced arbitration clauses and extracting a customer’s credit score to determine creditworthiness.
By Hannah LangAugust 17 -
The new policy, meant to assist borrowers in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, will let servicers evaluate borrowers using pre-disaster payment information.
By Hannah LangAugust 16 -
The regulator of the government-sponsored enterprises has substantial authority to intervene as a legislative stalemate continues.
By Hannah LangAugust 14 -
The Trump administration has argued that the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, issued in 2015, was too prescriptive.
By Hannah LangAugust 13 -
The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service issued a proposal that would allow pass-through businesses like Subchapter S banks to deduct 20% of their business income as part of the new tax law President Trump signed last year.
By Hannah LangAugust 9

















