Housing Overseers Embrace Credit Score Competition

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The Trump administration’s two top housing overseers moved to expand the credit-scoring methods available for mortgage lenders, unveiling a plan designed to boost home ownership and bring competition to a market long dominated by one company. “This is a very big deal,” FHFA Director Bill Pulte declared at a press conference, where his characteristic con…