Housing Finance
Publications
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…
From Market Watch:
“The important parts of the Treasury’s new paper on Fannie and Freddie reform are not the legislative recommendations, since legislation is not going to happen,” said Alex…
From CUToday:
Alex Pollock, R Street Institute Finance Senior Fellow and former CEO of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago
“The important parts of the Treasury’s new paper on Fannie and…
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, then staggering under huge losses from bad loans, were put into government conservatorship on September 6, 2008—eleven years ago today. Once considered financially…
The important parts of the Treasury’s new paper on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reform are not the legislative recommendations, since legislation is not going to happen. They are the administrative…