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In 2003, the Bush Administration sought to create a new agency, replacing the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, to oversee Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.In 1992, in the wake of the savings and loan crisis, and over concern that similar lending problems would develop, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight was created as part of the Department of Housing and Urban ...
The Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 established, for the first time, a mandate to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for loans to enable home ownership of less expensive housing, a mandate to be regulated by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Initially, the 1992 legislation required that 30% or more of Fannie's and ...
The GSEs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were both placed in conservatorship in September 2008. [7] The two GSEs guaranteed or held mortgage-backed securities (MBS), mortgages, and other debt with a notional value of more than $5 trillion. [8] Merrill Lynch was acquired by Bank of America in September 2008 for $50 billion. [9]
In 2008, the Federal Housing Finance Agency put Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into conservatorship. At the time, the two owned or guaranteed nearly 57% of the $12 trillion U.S. mortgage market.
The fate of Fannie Mae (Pink: FNMA) and Freddie Mac (Pink: FMCC), the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) at the heart of federal housing finance policy, remained unresolved at the conclusion ...
Fannie Mae buys $600 million of subprime mortgages, primarily on a flow basis. Freddie Mac, in that same year, purchases $18.6 billion worth of subprime loans, mostly Alt A and A- mortgages. Freddie Mac guarantees another $7.7 billion worth of subprime mortgages in structured transactions. [21] Credit Suisse develops the first mortgage-backed ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- California's attorney general filed lawsuits against mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Tuesday, demanding that the companies that own some 60 percent of the state's ...
Economist Paul Krugman and attorney David Min have argued that Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) could not have been primary causes of the bubble/bust in residential real estate because there was a bubble of similar magnitude in commercial real estate in America [71] — the market for hotels, shopping malls and ...