We have a responsibility to ensure that the housing finance system works efficiently and effectively.
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.
Housing minister John Healey will explain to council leaders later the outcome of a council housing finance review.
Privatization would get bureaucrats out of the thorny area of housing finance, but it also creates other concerns.
Politicians have applied a fiscal stimulus and, to keep housing finance flowing, relaxed prudential controls on government-sponsored mortgage lenders.
With the mortgage interest deduction in place, both sources of housing finance, debt and equity, get a tax preference.
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One recent example is the U.S.-led housing finance crisis and meltdown since 2008.
Developments in housing finance have rippled out to hit the construction industry and, less directly, to impact on household spending.
We did not take on the broad question of reform of the GSEs or the broader housing finance market in this bill.
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.
Government housing finance groups and Mexican commercial banks have begun offering mortgages in recent years, enabling more of the proletariat to own homes.
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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While most recognize evictions as a necessary feature of housing finance, in regions getting clobbered by high unemployment such actions seem draconian to some.
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.
Housing is good for society--and making more housing finance available to a broader cross section of Americans is good for individuals and good for our country.
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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Andy Firoved, CEO of Homeowner's Toolbox, a housing finance company, says there's a lack of noncontingent inventory, or housing that isn't tied up by short sales and foreclosures.
That was true in the U.S. savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and the 2007-08 bust in housing finance, the banking crisis in Ireland, so far in Spain.
Creating a government agency or corporation to oversee housing finance might minimize risk taking if Fannie and Freddie dropped their mortgage portfolios and instead focused only on issuing mortgage-backed securities.
We are designing this to be flexible so that the long-term ownership structure can be adjusted to meet the goals and direction that policymakers may set forth for housing finance reform.
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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.
However, that goal should be achieved outside of housing finance, through appropriate stabilizing measures by the Federal Reserve and through better prudential regulation, and especially higher capital requirements for large systemic financial institutions.
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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.
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