For nearly 17 years, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — two pillars of the U.S. housing finance system — have remained under federal conservatorship. The debate over how to exit this limbo has consumed ...

Sources say that the Senate Banking Committee will take up discussions of S 1217, yet another bill that addresses housing finance reform, sometime this week. A mark-up session scheduled for last week ...

The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Bill Pulte as Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency Thursday morning, March 13; he was sworn in as the agency's fifth Director at an FHFA ceremony today.

Against the backdrop of a new presidential administration and a new Congress, Mortgage Bankers Association President and CEO Bob Broeksmit laid out the trade group’s priorities during the opening ...

Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman is set to introduce a fresh proposal for mortgage-finance titans Fannie Mae and ...

Reducing FHA and Ginnie Mae staff won't help housing costs, according to an Urban Institute study From the day President Donald Trump re-occupied the White House, he has said he wants to lower the ...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, often spoken about in the same breath, should remain rivals in the secondary mortgage market, the head of a trade group representing mortgage bankers says. “Competition ...

President Donald Trump said he is weighing taking mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac public more than 15 years after the government seized control of the two companies, which are at the center ...

In a landmark shift for the U.S. housing finance system, the Federal Housing Finance Agency has issued a directive ordering Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to formally consider cryptocurrency as an asset ...

Vance Ginn is president of Ginn Economic Consulting, host of the Let People Prosper Show, and formerly chief economist of the first Trump White House's Office of Management and Budget. The federal ...

WASHINGTON — When Bill Pulte was nominated as the country’s top housing regulator, he told senators that his “number one mission will be to strengthen and safeguard the housing finance system.” But ...

The 11 Federal Home Loan banks play an essential role in the housing market and in local economies. Cutting their community ties would damage their ability to fulfill that mission, writes Ron Haynie, ...