Making FHA More Affordable Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-4159
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2017-10-26
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Latest action: action_date: 2017-10-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-10-26
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Making FHA More Affordable Act of 2017 </b></p> <p>This bill amends the National Housing Act to require Federal Housing Administration mortgage borrowers to pay mortgage insurance premiums only when their remaining principal balance exceeds&nbsp;78% or more of the home value or sales price. </p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4159 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES October 26, 2017 Ms. Maxine Waters of California introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services A BILL To limit the collection of annual premiums under the FHA program for mortgage insurance for single family housing, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Making FHA More Affordable Act of 2017 . 2. Annual premiums Paragraph (2) of section 203(c) of the National Housing Act ( 12 U.S.C. 1709(c)(2) ) is amended— (1) in subparagraph (B)— (A) in clause (i), by striking For any and inserting Subject to subparagraph (D), for any ; and (B) in clause (ii), by striking For any and inserting Subject to subparagraph (D), for any ; (2) in subparagraph (C)(i), by striking In addition and inserting Subject to subparagraph (D), in addition ; and (3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: (D) The Secretary may not collect any annual premiums under this paragraph with respect to a mortgage at any time that the remaining insured principal balance (excluding the portion of the remaining balance attributable to the premium collected under subparagraph (A)) is 78 percent or less than the lower of (i) the sales price of the dwelling at the sale in connection with which the mortgage was made, or (ii) the appraised value of the dwelling at the time of the origination of the mortgage. .