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In the more than twelve years since their 2008 failure, nobody has been able to figure out how to end Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac being wards of the state, as their continued existence is wholly…
Our organizations welcome the opportunity to provide comment on the FHFA’s 2020 Proposed Capital Rule. The R Street Institute and Taxpayers for Common Sense are both 501c3 research organizations…
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on this Notice and Request for Input regarding the impact of residential Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) programs on the government-sponsored…
The undersigned organizations representing financial services, real estate finance, housing, consumer affairs, and civil rights appreciate the opportunity to respond to the notice of commencement of…
From The Chicago Tribune:
“Should a lender’s portfolio … show no statistically significant difference in the default outcomes between a protected class and a non-protected class, said lender…
Among the strategic goals for reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac specified by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in Congressional testimony on October 22 was: “Legislation could achieve lasting…
EDWARD J. PINTO and TOBIAS J. PETER ALEX J. POLLOCK
AEI Housing Center R…
From Forbes:
My good friend, banker-scholar Alex Pollock of the R Street Institute, has shared with me some startling new data. High priced, comparatively luxury college student housing has been…
The distinguished judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit have considered how much Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have paid the Treasury Department to compensate the taxpayers for the…
From C-SPAN:
R Street Institute’s Alex Pollock discussed proposed changes to the housing financing system by the Trump administration, including an overhaul of mortgage-finance…