Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., the investment bank brought down by the U.S. mortgage crash after 158 years, is set to return to funding home loans through its Aurora Loan Services unit, people familiar with the matter said.

Aurora, which helped make Lehman the top underwriter of mortgage bonds during the housing boom, has started hiring staff for the effort, said the people who declined to be identified because the plan isn’t public.

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