Spokeswomen for the Federal Housing Finance Agency and the Treasury Department declined to comment.
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The Federal Housing Finance Agency is currently contemplating ways to distribute housing rick amongst the private sector.
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On Tuesday, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the regulator for Fannie and Freddie, announced its own sweeping plan.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency, the new GSE regulator created by the housing bill, has placed new CEOs in charge of both firms.
Still up on the U.S. economic front, the Federal Housing Finance Agency's March home price index is to be released at 9 a.m.
Until now, the Federal Housing Finance Agency has maintained that the current housing-rescue programs offered by the taxpayer-supported mortgage companies are less-expensive options.
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Bharara is joined by the Inspector General of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
They are regulated, indeed controlled, by the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
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But the Treasury's power over the pair is limited as long as they remain under the control of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, an independent agency.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency is nearing a decision on whether to allow the companies to participate in the debt-forgiveness program that it consistently has resisted.
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Meanwhile, the Federal Housing Finance Agency's February home-price index showed a monthly rise of 0.7% in February, while new-home sales for March rose 1.5% to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 417, 000.
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In 2011, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (regulator of Freddie and Fannie) sued 17 financial firms for misrepresenting the quality of mortgage backed securities sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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By contrast, some other indexes based on more recent data, such as that from the Federal Housing Finance Agency and private sources such as John Burns Real Estate Consulting, show a nascent recovery.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency, the companies' conservator, directed Fannie and Freddie to delist their shares, which they expect to be traded in the over-the-counter market under tickers that have yet to be assigned.
In economic news, home prices increased less than economists had expected in January, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency, leaving sales of previously owned properties at the highest level in more than three years.
Local governments across the country either scuttled or chose not to offer residential PACE programs after the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) ruled, in July 2010, it would not underwrite mortgages on homes with PACE liens.
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In a speech in Las Vegas on October 24, President Obama promised that the Federal Housing Finance Agency would prod banks to give homeowners who are under water with their Fannie and Freddie mortgages an opportunity to refinance.
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At the beginning of the month, the Federal Housing Finance Agency took the first official step in a plan circulating since the fall: allowing investors to buy pools of foreclosed homes backed by the government and turn them into rental units.
One suggestion which had flown under the radar, but is just now being discussed within the Obama administration according to the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, is for GSEs to stop selling their foreclosed inventory and offer the properties for rent.
Last month, I directed my economic team to work with the Federal Housing Finance Agency -- or FHFA -- and their partners in the housing industry to identify barriers to refinancing, knock those barriers down, and explore every option available to help many American homeowners to refinance.
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Throw in the litigation with banks over foreclosures and mortgage issues Bank of America may be the poster child but virtually every big U.S bank except Wells Fargo is being sued by the Federal Housing Finance Agency and there is clearly a long road ahead.
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On August 9, a federal district court judge in California ruled (PDF) that the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) violated federal law when it decided, without public notice or opportunity for stakeholders to comment, in July 2010, not to underwrite mortgages on homes with property assessed clean energy (PACE) loans.
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