Trump administration should hit the brakes on title insurance waiver pilot program

In the final days of the Biden administration, officials had several policy decisions to make as the president worked to cement his legacy, including whether to move forward with the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s (FHFA) title insurance waiver pilot program. The program would waive title insurance requirements for certain Fannie Mae federally backed mortgage loans. Both Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill previously expressed concern that the program would undermine the protection title insurance provides.