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FHFA Wants To End Conservatorship

In its 144-page annual report, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) argued for greater capital requirements by wanting to strengthen its capital reserves and end conservatorship.

The regulator of the government-sponsored entities (GSEs) asked Congress to authorize it to investigate non-bank lenders who do business with the GSEs and allow it to sanction other entities to compete with the GSEs.

The FHFA also requested Congress to put an end to any exemptions or special treatments for the GSEs so that it is shoulder to shoulder with the private sector.

The report argued for the need to raise enough funds to end the conservatorship, though it is very unlikely.

One former GSE official who spoke to HousingWire questioned how much of the reports’ contents would be significantly revised, The upcoming supreme court decision will allow President Biden to remove Mark Calabria, the FHFA director.

Calabria, who is a critic of the GSEs, is having very different priorities for the regulated entities as compared to the Biden administration.

Because conservatorship provides control over the housing market, it is one reason the federal government is not likely to give up its control over the GSEs.

Approximately half the country’s residential mortgage market is owned or guaranteed by GSEs.

During the FHFA’s response to the pandemic, the regulator suspended single-family foreclosures and foreclosure-related evictions and rolled out options of forbearance on disaster response efforts.

Even if the response has averted a wave of foreclosures, but it had significant costs noted in the report.

The Congressional Budget Office estimated that it would take a $10 billion loss.

The report said in order to prevent that loss, the agencies began adding an adverse market fee of 0.5 % on some refinance mortgages.

Which got a response that the fees did not help with mitigating risk and were only an attempt to cushion its capital reserves.

The losses weren’t as predicted because Fannie Mae’s net income in 2020 was $11.8 billion, which was $14 billion in 2019. at the end of 2020, Freddie Mac’s net income was $7.3 billion, a 2% increase from 2019.

The regulator also cautioned that even though borrowers have come out of forbearance, the delinquent loans are still quite high.

In December 2020, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had delinquent loans of 615,000 in their single-family guarantee portfolio.

Reference Source: Housing Wire

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