Fannie Mae stepped up its efforts to increase the supply of affordable housing, announcing earlier this week that it was increasing the loan limit for multifamily small mortgage loans from $3 million to $6 million.

Freddie Mac announced late last month that it had closed a deal with RBC Capital Markets to create a $180 million low-income housing tax credit fund. The fund, Freddie’s fourth LIHTC deal since re-entering the market last year after a decade’s absence, has already made several investments.

Merchant Capital, an affordable housing lender based in Carmel, IN, announced in late December that it used Freddie Mac’s first official non-LIHTC forward commitment to secure financing for a $19.7 million workforce housing development in Rochester, MN.