The Federal Housing Administration’s Office of Single Family Housing (OSFH) has officially deactivated and archived nearly 600 outdated Mortgagee Letters (MLs), many of which had remained listed in HUD’s active policy directories despite being expired or superseded.
The move follows a comprehensive review of documents on HUD’s Client Information Policy System (HUDCLIPS), where some MLs, dating as far back as 1978, were still accessible in the active online policy directory. According to FHA, this created confusion for lenders and other users attempting to locate accurate and up-to-date guidance on Single Family Housing policies.
“This streamlining effort will help improve the accuracy of information received from manual and AI-generated web searches about FHA Single Family policy, programs, and technology modernization efforts,” the OSFH said in a news release.