Fannie and Freddie modified their policies to support lower-income borrowers by allowing greater use of downpayment assistance and equity-sharing programs.

The new rule would solidify the GSEs’ equitable housing finance plans, fair housing reporting and collection of language preference data.

Properties with mortgage loans backed by Fannie green bonds saved the equivalent of 11.8 trillion BTUs in energy last year.

For Fannie, the most obvious change was a major expansion of the EHFP’s target audience. In its initial plan, the enterprise had focused almost exclusively on Black homebuyers.

New definitions in the amended rule will expand the number of colonias eligible for credit under the duty-to-serve obligations of the GSEs.

The regulator of the GSEs wants to know if there are ways it can help improve protections for the tenants of apartment buildings financed by Fannie and Freddie.

FHLBank treatment of collateral may be inhibiting development of affordable housing, industry stakeholders told FHFA in comments.

The GSEs’ regulator has backtracked on its controversial rules for commingled securities.

In a sign of how much business declined at Fannie and Freddie last year, their contributions to the two affordable housing programs are off 50% from 2022.

Critics argue that, by targeting deep-pocket institutional buyers, the enterprises’ sale of non-performing and reperforming loans removes homes from the buyers’ market and makes it impossible for nonprofit organizations to participate meaningfully.