AMLA Website Redesigned

To Our Valued Members:

I would like to take a moment to share some very exciting news with all of you. In recent months, AMLA has partnered with Inspire Business Concepts, a local virtual brand marketing firm to help us take some meaningful strides in developing our virtual brand. As a result, I am very pleased to announce that we have now launched a completely revamped website. This new site will provide several key benefits to our members and the mortgage lending community as a whole:

Increased usability and intuitiveness – our new site has been completely optimized with a fresh, minimalistic design that makes content easy to find and interact with.

Dynamic content – our new site utilizes a class-leading content management system (CMS) that makes it extremely quick and easy for content to be updated by the organization and its members.

Increased member engagement – our new blogging platform and content management system will make it easy for our members to both provide and interact with valuable content on our new site.

Increased consumer engagement – with fresh, hyper-relevant content being supplied by our members on our easy to use content management system, we are confident that we can drive engagement from consumers, which will create greater exposure and opportunities for our members.

New events calendar – we’ve enhanced our events calendar by making it more accessible and more intuitive to navigate.

Increased marketing opportunities – we will be partnering with Inspire Branding to offer advertising services to our associate members, which will allow them to purchase ad space and eye-catching ads that will help them to reach a targeted audience at extremely affordable rates.

Integrated PayPal functionality – we will now be using the super-secure PayPal platform for online payment processing.

It is my hope that you will all enjoy the enhancements to the new site. If your business could benefit from similar services, don’t hesitate to reach out to our friends at iBranding for more information: inspirebusinessconcepts.com.

Sincerely yours,

Ted Theiste, President

U.S. House Passes Bipartisan Housing Package

By Bill Killmer, Jamie Woodwell, and Pete Mills ● Feb 09, 2026

This evening, the full U.S. House passed overwhelmingly (390-9) H.R. 6644, the Housing for the 21st Century Act. The housing package aims to tackle supply and affordability challenges, modernize local development, and improve government housing programs.

Specifically, the package (see breakdown here) advances several MBA-backed reforms, including updating Federal Housing Administration (FHA) multifamily loan limits, streamlining federal housing program offerings, incrementally improving financing processes for Rural Housing Service loans, providing targeted support for construction and rehabilitation, and fostering stronger coordination among federal agencies and Congress.
Monday's vote was under “suspension of the rules,” a “fast-track” procedure for non-controversial bills to avoid lengthy debates and the offering of amendments. A two-thirds majority of those present and voting is needed for the bill to pass the House.

What they're saying: In a press statement, MBA President and CEO Bob Broeksmit, CMB, said, “Housing affordability is a top concern for homeowners, renters, and communities across the country. Today's overwhelming bipartisan vote signals meaningful legislative momentum to expand supply, improve affordability, and modernize housing policy.”

Go deeper: In advance of today's vote, MBA sent its latest support letter to House leadership (read another from December) and joined two other trade letters here and here.

The House package passed the full House Financial Services Committee (HFSC) on December 17 by a vote of 53-1 and was introduced on December 11th by House Financial Services Committee Chair French Hill (R-AR), Ranking Member Maxine Waters (D-CA), Housing and Insurance Subcommittee leaders Mike Flood (R-NE) and Emanual Cleaver (D-MO), and a bipartisan group of lawmakers as a counterpoint to the Senate's ROAD to Housing Act proposal.
The Senate bill is a bipartisan package of roughly 40 aggregated housing proposals that advanced out of the Senate Banking Committee in July 2025 and was adopted by voice vote prior to the full Senate's passed version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) in October 2025. A full Senate vote on the package could happen as soon as later this month.

What's next: MBA will continue to work with House and Senate leaders and their staffs to help reconcile differences between the two housing packages, particularly regarding their sections on appraisals and Rural Housing Service program reforms, once the bills proceed further on parallel tracks in both chambers.

For more information, please contact Rachel Kelley at (202) 557-2816, Madisyn Rhone at (202) 557-2741, George Rogers at (202) 557-2797, and Jeremy Green at (202) 557-2849.