The Federal Housing Finance Agency has wrongfully denied Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac permission to uphold their statutory duty under the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 to make contributions to the National Housing Trust Fund, according to a lawsuit filed by the National Low Income Housing Coalition. Fil0ed last week in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, the suit by the NLIHC – along with the Right to City Alliance and four other individual plaintiffs – calls on the FHFA to make good on the GSEs’ obligations to make contributions into the trust fund. The fund was set up under HERA to provide subsidies to rehabilitate and fund low-income housing, but Fannie’s and Freddie’s payment obligations to the trust fund were suspended when the GSEs were placed into government conservatorship in September 2008.