What does "fha" mean?

the federal agency in the Department of Housing and Urban Development that insures residential mortgages

Fha

Common synonyms include: agency, federal, federal housing administration, government agency, government-backed, mortgage insurer.

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Noun

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the federal agency in the Department of Housing and Urban Development that insures residential mortgages wordnet

Proper Noun

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Initialism of Federal Housing Administration. US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
"White residents used Federal Housing Administration-insured loans to buy their way out of the projects and to move to shiny new middle-class subdivisions. […] The F.H.A.’s explicitly racist underwriting standards, which rated black and integrated neighborhoods as uninsurable, made federally insured home loans largely unavailable to black home seekers."

"By creating the financial mortgaging system that Americans still use today, the FHA made home buying more accessible for millions of people."