Outlines FHFA’s goals and priorities for overseeing Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBs) for 2018-2022. […]
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FHFA Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2018 – 2022
S&P Global | U.S. Municipal Housing Sector Outlook 2018
S&P Global Ratings’ 2018 outlook for the U.S. public finance (USPF) housing sector in 2018 is stable, with some limited exceptions. The industry begins 2018 breathing a sigh of relief that the final version of the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (the Tax Act) maintained tax-exempt private activity bonds, the lifeblood of […]
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Leaked Outline of Trump Administration Infrastructure Plan
Leaked outline of a previous draft of the Trump Administration’s infrastructure plan. […]
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NCSHA 2018 Legislative, Regulatory, and Business Priorities
The National Council of State Housing Agencies (NCSHA) is a national nonprofit, nonpartisan organization created by the nation’s state Housing Finance Agencies (HFAs) to advance through advocacy and education their efforts to provide affordable housing to those who need it. […]
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FHFA’s Perspectives on Housing Finance Reform
To achieve these objectives for a post-conservatorship housing finance system, the following suggestions and perspectives are considered responsible, balanced, viable and important to consider. […]
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FHFA Director Mel Watt’s Letter to Senate Banking Committee on GSE Reform
Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mel Watt’s 2018 letter on GSE Reform. […]
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NCSHA Letter on HFA Risk Sharing FFB Initiative
On behalf of our member state Housing Finance Agencies (HFAs), the National Council of State Housing Agencies (NCSHA) thanks you for all you are doing to advance affordable housing opportunity in this country. We applaud your successful efforts to preserve in tax reform legislation the Low Income Housing Tax Credit and tax-exempt private activity Housing Bonds. Collectively, these programs are our most powerful response to our growing affordable housing crisis. […]
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Urban Institute | The Case for More, Not Less: Shortfalls in Federal Housing Assistance and Gaps in Evidence for Proposed Policy Changes
This report provides an overview of the current landscape of housing assistance, its central role in the safety net, and the evidence on contemporary policy proposals. […]
Federal Housing Finance Agency 2018 Scorecard for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Common Securitization Solutions
Outlines the steps FHFA expects Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Common Securitization Solutions to undertake next year to fulfill FHFA’s Strategic Plan for Enterprise Conservatorship, which was finalized in 2014. […]