FHFA OIG Releases Paper on GSE Capital Requirement Shortfall
August 25, 2017
The Federal Housing Finance Agency Office of Inspector General recently released a white paper highlighting the GSEs’ pre-conservatorship statutory capital requirements and their current shortfalls.With the 2008 conservatorship, capital requirements for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were suspended so the paper mostly emphasizes the lack of capital for housing-finance and GSE reform debate purposes. “Because of heightened public interest in the role of the enterprise, if any, in the future structure of the housing finance system, FHFA-OIG prepared this white paper to explain the current statutory and regulatory capital requirements for the enterprises,” it explained.