Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could be used to help establish a functioning non-agency market, according to a strategic plan released last week by the Federal Housing Finance Agency. The conservator of the government-sponsored enterprises said it is working on various initiatives to gradually reduce the GSEs’ roles in housing finance. “The strategic goals and performance objectives set forth here provide an outline for the next chapter of the story, one that focuses in earnest on building a secondary mortgage market infrastructure that will live beyond the enterprises,” said Edward DeMarco, acting director of the FHFA, in testimony this week before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs ...