Industry and congressional Democrats laud the first Black woman to head the nation’s housing finance system.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency to require bank-like capital disclosures tied to ERCF rules.

Just a week after imposing onerous new capital disclosure requirements on Fannie and Freddie, FHFA adopts a rule requiring them to file annual capital plans.

Higher AMIs in most counties mean more borrowers are eligible for the GSEs’ affordable housing programs.

Regulator corrects “inadvertent omissions” in the text of the Community Support Requirements regulation.

The White House action plan for increasing the supply of affordable housing largely piggybacks on the duty-to-serve plans of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

According to the former FHFA chief, given the state of the mortgage and equity markets, Fannie Mae won’t survive another round of home price depreciation.

FHFA and Treasury haven’t discussed how to make the 2021 changes to the PSPAs permanent or whether to ease the capital requirements for the GSEs.

Trade groups are resigned to whatever model FHFA chooses, but they need data on how it performs compared to FICO to set up their own systems and procedures.

The regulator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is now a member of an organization that says climate change poses a serious risk to the financial system.