The Department of Housing and Urban Development recently called upon lawmakers to restore funding for its housing counseling, a key eligibility requirement for borrowers under the FHA’s Home Equity Conversion Mortgage program. Deborah Holston, HUD acting deputy assistant secretary for single-family housing, told members of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity that the department has identified ways to streamline and improve the housing counseling program. House appropriators did not restore funding for the program in the draft FY 2012 appropriations bill released...