Tag: FHFA
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CFPB, FHFA, & HUD Launch Joint Mortgage & Housing COVID-19 Assistance Website
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) have jointly launched a new mortgage and housing assistance website to help Americans impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic navigate through this time with the latest accurate housing assistance information. Homeowners and renters can access the…
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FHFA Realigning Agency Structure to Help Enterprises Exit Conservatorship
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) just announced a realignment in their agency structure intended to help them to continue delivering as a regulator of the Enterprises, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the Federal Home Loan Banks, and to ensure that the Enterprises can responsibly exit conservatorship.
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FHFA’s Office of Minority & Women Inclusion Releases Strategic Plan
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)’s Office of Minority and Women Inclusion (OMWI) has just released its strategic plan for increasing diversity and inclusion (D&I) in housing finance for years 2019-2021. The FHFA outlines three goals to help fulfill its equal employment opportunity (EEO) mission and increasing D&I efforts at the Enterprises, including Fannie Mae,…
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FHFA Requests Public Input for Duty to Serve Program Provisions – Deadline Nov. 2, 2018
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) recently released a Request for Input to the public regarding proposed modifications to the Enterprises’, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, Duty to Serve (DTS) program. These proposed modifications will the purchase or rehabilitation of distressed properties activity, chattell loan pilot, investment in LIHTC properties and financing by small financial…
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SHETalks: Sharron P.A. Levine on Public Housing Issues & Women’s Changing Roles in the Industry
Sharron P.A. Levine, Director of the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion (OMWI) at the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), was the first in our SHETalk series. She gave a historical overview of housing for minorities and women, focusing on how housing design has changed through the 20th and 21st centuries and how housing policy…
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Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Conclude Expansion in Single-Family Rental Market
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced yesterday that government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will end their expansion into the single-family rental market by halting the single-family rental pilot programs initiated in the last two years. The FHFA has concluded that the market is able to run smoothly without the assistance of GSEs,…
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2018 NAWRB Conference Live Updates: Building Infrastructure, Maintaining Agriculture & Disaster Recovery
The second to last panel to grace our stage was the Building Infrastructure, Maintaining Agriculture & Disaster Recovery Panel, featuring Michelle Corridon, Deputy Director, USDA Rural Development; Noemi Lujan-Perez, VP of Government and Media Relations, EcoDiversity; James K. Joseph, Regional Administrator, FEMA Region V; Sharron P.A. Levine, Director of the Office of Minority and Women…
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2018 NAWRB Conference Live Updates: SHETalk Sharron P.A. Levine, Dr. Chitra Dorai & Dottie Herman
We kicked off the 2018 NAWRB 5th Annual Conference, “Year of Women,” this morning with three inspiring SHETalks by Sharron P.A. Levine, Director of the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion (OMWI) at the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA); Dr. Chitra Dorai, Former IBM Fellow and Master Inventor; and Dottie Herman, CEO of Douglas Elliman.…
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FHFA Halts Search for New Credit Score Models
Today the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced that it is shelving its search of a new credit score model, a decision that was expected to be announced in 2018, to focus its attention on implementing the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act enacted earlier this year. The Act requires the agency to…