The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

In response to that growing criticism plus how much has changed in markets, legislation, and regulation during the 90-plus years of the FHLBanks’ existence, its regulator – the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) – announced in 2022 that it would undertake a review of the entire System.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JULY 22, 2024

On the other hand, they are required to undertake a public policy mission that does not generate such a return, leading to Congress also awarding them subsidies to ideally even it all out. Although that justification appears nowhere in the legislation creating the GSEs, it is quite broadly accepted by a wide range of policymakers.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

4] The relevant Trump II policy objectives I have identified nine policy objectives that are both likely to be important to officials in the Trump II administration and relevant for shaping GSE mortgage policies and programs. Reform or eliminate specific targeted credit access programs (e.g.,

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