New HMDA Data Shows Mortgage Market Continues to Exclude Black and Latino Borrowers
WASHINGTON, D.C.— The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) released its 2019 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data this week, covering the vast majority of mortgages made in the United States in the past year. Like previous years, the data revealed that borrowers of color remain underserved in the conventional market. Despite a modest increase in the share of home-purchase loans made to Black and Latino borrowers in 2019, these shares remain well below the population share they represent. The HMDA data also shows that the majority of home purchase loans made to Black