UMMC argues that the GSEs’ three-year duty-to-serve plans are wholly inadequate to address the current affordable housing crisis.

A new standardized structure for capital and risk-management disclosures will make it easier to compare Fannie and Freddie to one another and to other large financial institutions.

Housing stakeholders liked FHFA’s plan to require Fannie and Freddie to develop equitable housing finance plans, but they also recommended changes.

Expanding the definition of affordability to include more loans in cost-burdened markets could be an important opportunity for multifamily lenders.

One case, long thought dead, is revived; a completely new case is born. Still, the legal chances don’t look good.

Pooling loans from its Home Possible program into affordable housing MBS could be the next step in Freddie’s impact bond initiative.

Fannie gets rid of its RPL through whole loan sales, while Freddie prefers securitizations for its offerings.

LIHTC and GSE programs both use the same flawed system for determining whether a project is “affordable,” revealed David Brickman, former CEO of Freddie Mac.

Although the GSEs have for several months seen declines in the share of investor and second-home mortgage purchases, it remains to be seen whether lenders will continue to deliver these loans into the non-agency market now that the caps have been withdrawn. (Includes two data charts.)

In her first long-form interview since taking over as FHFA acting director, Sandra Thompson insisted that expanding the GSEs’ books of business won’t make them riskier.