Habitat, other housing non-profits gain freedom from mortgage origination rules

by Ted Carter Published: June 3,2012
Tags: Americas, economic development, Georgia, Habitat for Humanity, housing, Jimmy Carter, poverty, SAFE Act, Trey Jones
A state law signed in late May relieves Mississippi’s Habitat for Humanity chapters of requirements that each chapter have a person certified to originate mortgages. That provision of the state’s version of the federal Secure and Fair Enforcement Mortgage Licensing Act, or SAFE, mandated that any organization or individual originating more than five mortgages a [...] [...]
