Today’s HousingWire Daily features a roundtable discussion from HousingWire’s Lunch & Learn series that looks at “Unpacking the lender’s vital role in increasing minority homeownership.” The conversation tackles the challenges and opportunities that lenders and communities face while working to increase minority homeownership and equity in housing and lending.

The discussion is hosted by iEmergent CEO Laird Nossuli and features several real estate professionals, including iEmergent COO Bernard Nossuli , Homeownership Council of America President Gabe Del Rio, and National Association of Minority Mortgage Bankers of America (NAMMBA) Founder and President Tony Thompson. It also includes Jill Frondorf, SVP, Director of Operations at Fifth Third Bank and Robert Hironimus, Affordable Lending Sales Manager at Fulton Mortgage.