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Nonbank Mortgage Servicers: Proposing a Better Path to Reduce Their Risk to Financial Stability

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

First, the implementation timeline is rather long, as key recommendations are significantly dependent upon Congress passing legislation – and it must be assumed that such passage will require, at a minimum, at least several years. I find these recommendations lacking for four main reasons. government.

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The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

This translates into considerable clout in Congress and state legislatures. 23 There has even been legislation proposed in Congress to legally require the tri-merge report, 24 overriding the FHFA’s proposed reform. The FHFA, from its founding in 2008 to 2021, was an independent regulator. labor force of 168 million.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In the years immediately following conservatorship (which began in September 2008), the FHFA increasingly took over setting the average G-fee. Not surprisingly, the two companies highly prioritized protecting those subsidies, which meant maintaining political support in Congress to ensure no legislation was passed to take them away.

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Government Mortgage Interest Rates: A Serious Discussion about the Intertwined Topics of Risk Adjustment and Cross-subsidies

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The changes then became the subject of hearings and legislation in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to reverse the changes. One is the long-standing Affordable Housing Goals program (from 1992), and the other is the more recent Duty to Serve (DTS) program (from 2008). This claim is simply untrue.