On November 1, 2024, the CFPB filed a proposed order to resolve its case against Townstone Financial for discriminatory lending practices and redlining African American neighborhoods in Chicago. The proposed order would prohibit Townstone from taking any actions that violate the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) and require the company to pay a $105,000 penalty to the CFPB’s victims relief fund. 

On October 15, 2024, the CFPB and the DOJ took action against Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation for illegal mortgage lending discrimination against majority-Black neighborhoods in the greater Birmingham, Alabama area. According to the CFPB and DOJ, Fairway illegally redlined Black neighborhoods, including through its marketing and sales actions, by discouraging people from applying for mortgage loans in the Birmingham metropolitan area’s Black neighborhoods.

On September 18, 2024, the HUD announced the approval of a Conciliation Agreement with OceanFirst Bank for engaging in redlining by restricting access to credit and mortgage lending services in majority-Black, Hispanic, and Asian neighborhoods in the New Brunswick, New Jersey area. The HUD’s investigation was conducted alongside the DOJ  after a referral from the OCC.

On July 15, 2024, the HUD charged multiple entities with housing discrimination for issuing a biased appraisal and then denying a refinance loan application in Denver, Colorado. HUD charged  appraiser Maksym Mykhailyna, appraisal company Maverick Appraisal Group, appraisal management company Solidifi U.S. Inc. and lender Rocket Mortgage, LLC.

On July 17, 2024, the CFPB, FDIC, FHFA, FRB, NCUA, and OCC jointly issued a final rule, pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, designed to help ensure the credibility and integrity of models used in valuations for certain mortgages secured by a consumer's principal dwelling. In particular, the rule will implement quality control standards for automated valuation models (AVMs) used by mortgage originators and secondary market issuers in valuing those homes.

On June 26, 2024, the CFPB released its Fair Lending Annual Report to Congress, describing the Bureau’s fair lending activities in enforcement, guidance and rulemaking, interagency coordination, and outreach and activities for calendar year 2023. Specifically. The Fair Lending Annual Report to Congress fulfills the Bureau’s statutory responsibility to report annually to Congress on public enforcement actions taken under the ECOA as well as the utility of the HMDA’s mortgage loan data collection requirements.

On May 13, 2024, the HUD announced that it has entered into a Conciliation Agreement with Rocket Mortgage, LLC resolving allegations that Rocket Mortgage denied a mortgage loan application based on race because the home being purchased was located within the Tribal boundaries of a federally recognized reservation.