March 15, 2024
Blog: Celebrating Women’s History Month – Q&A with Prominent Private MI Industry Leaders

Women are a driving force in the housing market – despite still facing a gender wage gap, single women own 2.71 million more homes than single men (10.95 million versus 8.24 million)

March 15, 2024
Blog: Q&A with Dianna Higgins, SVP Investor Relations, MGIC

Dianna Higgins is the Senior Vice President (SVP) of Investor Relations of Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation (MGIC).

March 15, 2024
Blog: Q&A with Lesley Alli, SVP Industry Relations and Corporate Communications, National MI

Lesley Alli is the Senior Vice President (SVP) of Industry Relations and Corporate Communications of National Mortgage Insurance (National MI).

March 15, 2024
Blog: Q&A with Whitney Dodd, VP Public Policy, Radian

Whitney Dodd is the Vice President (VP) of Public Policy of Radian.

February 22, 2024
Blog: How Private MI Serves the Housing Finance System as a Source of Strength and Resiliency

On January 16, USMI submitted a comment letter to the Federal Reserve, FDIC, and OCC (collectively the Agencies) on the Basel III Endgame proposed rule.

February 15, 2024
Blog: Black History Month – Working to Promote More Affordable and Sustainable Homeownership

As an industry designed to enable access to homeownership, especially for first-time, low- and moderate-income (LMI), and minority homebuyers, during Black History Month we want to dive into the data, trends, and policies associated with Black homeownership in America.

May 25, 2023
Blog Post: Q&A with USMI Chairman Adolfo Marzol on the Private MI Industry’s 2022 Performance

The private mortgage insurance (MI) industry helped over 1 million low down payment borrowers secure mortgage financing in 2022 –first-time homebuyers represented nearly 62% of this volume.

October 14, 2022
Blog: Q&A with Brian Montgomery, former Deputy Secretary of HUD

Brian Montgomery is Chairman and Founding Partner of Gate House Strategies, LLC. He served as the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) until January 2021.

October 12, 2022
Blog: Q&A with Senator Bob Menendez

Senator Bob Menendez grew up the son of Cuban immigrants in a tenement building in Union City and has risen to become one of 100 United States Senators.

September 29, 2022
Blog: Q&A with Luis Padilla, NAHREP® President

Luis C. Padilla is the President of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals® (NAHREP), a nonprofit trade association dedicated to advancing sustainable homeownership for the Hispanic community in America.

September 29, 2022
Blog: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month – Q&A with Prominent Housing Leaders

As we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, USMI reached out to prominent leaders in the housing finance and mortgage industries to discuss their work and perspectives on the goal of increasing Hispanic homeownership in America.