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# Compliance News: Revised FHA Single Family Handbook 4000.1 (2020)
Nov 24, 2020
Topics: [In the News](https://compliance.docutech.com/tag/in-the-news), [Compliance News Alert](https://compliance.docutech.com/tag/compliance-news-alert)
On November 18, 2020 the Department of Housing and Urban Development published revisions to FHA Single Family Handbook 4000.1 (see [SFH Handbook 4000.1 | HUD.gov / U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)](https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/housing/sfh/handbook_4000-1)). Some of these revisions include removing a restriction against an attorney-in-fact for military personnel from signing both the initial and closing copies of the loan application, as well as requiring, in connection with Existing Construction listed in certain airport zones, that the mortgagee obtain the borrower’s acknowledgment of the hazards of such.
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