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Since Portlanders voted to approve city charter reform last November—effectively calling for an overhaul of the city’s government structure—there’s been substantial work to make sure the city is prepared to implement a suite of changes, come November 2024. Key updates have taken place since the last time the Mercury looked at the charter reform process in April. The Independent District Commission (IDC) and Independent Salary Commission (ISC) have reached major milestones...

/PRNewswire/ -- OriginPoint, a joint venture between Guaranteed Rate and Compass Real Estate, today announced the launch of Same Day Mortgage,1 delivering a...

The Chicago-based lender will provide up to $8,000 in down payment and closing cost assistance to underserved potential home buyers.

The Office of immigrant Affairs and the Office of Innovation and Technology worked together to create the Language Services Usage dashboard.

While we had news today of the British Prime Minister resigning, yesterday my doctor asked if anyone in my family suffers from mental illness. I replied, "No, we all seem to enjoy it." Suffering from a lack of liquidity is the death knell for lenders and certainly nothing to joke about. Want to know the quickest way to shut your business down? Don’t return your warehouse bank’s phone call. In the secondary markets, if no one is interested in buying the products we...

Guaranteed Rate has launched a new mortgage program for clients who only or prefer to speak Spanish.

/PRNewswire/ -- Guaranteed Rate, a leader in mortgage lending and digital financial services, today unveils an expanded Language Access Program (LAP). This...

Guaranteed Rate and CrossCountry Mortgage aim to bring more Hispanic borrowers, who are expected to make up 70% of homeownership growth in the U.S. over the next 20 years.

Both companies have rolled out tools that allow for communications to take place entirely in Spanish if the customer desires.

A community servant at heart, Valdez was looking to make the leap into an official city board or commission, but there was a catch: his preferred language is Spanish, and typical commission meetings are conducted in English. Fortunately, Valdez wasn’t the only person thinking about how to make the city more inclusive.