The former FHFA director said, given the Federal Reserve’s commitment to fight inflation, home prices could fall by double digits in percentage terms over the next few years.
Conservative economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin said the Federal Reserve’s exit from the MBS market is helping drive up interest rates in the affordable housing space. The remedy, he said, is GSE reform.
During a recent congressional hearing, FHFA Director Sandra Thompson said the agency will conduct a 90-year lookback as well as a forward-looking analysis of the FHLBank system.
At the first of three planned listening sessions, FHFA heard that for-profit investors increasingly use litigation to pressure nonprofit affordable housing developers to sell LIHTC-funded properties at minimal prices.