A few years back, Pinto and AEI unveiled a new mortgage product called the Wealth Building Home Loan, which was intended to provide an affordable mortgage option for low- and middle-income borrowers.
The share price of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac common has taken a nosedive since the fall, dropping by almost 50 percent, while leaving speculators twisting in the wind and sitting on potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. The reason for the slow but steady decline is hardly surprising: Reform of the government-sponsored enterprises by legislators appears to be a long shot at this point. Moreover, there’s increasing talk in Washington that an “administrative solution” to ...
The American Enterprise Institute this week released a proposal to gradually eliminate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac through administrative action and reform the FHA program. Many of its recommendations could be implemented by the Federal Housing Finance Agency director that President Trump can nominate early next year.
Pete Carroll, an executive at CoreLogic, noted that many Democrats in Congress will not support a housing finance reform bill unless such provisions are included.
In January, the government-sponsored enterprises and Ginnie placed their guarantees on $102.48 billion of new single-family MBS, a modest 6.9 percent decline from December.