#special purpose credit programs

30 08, 2022

FedFin on: The No-Down Low-Down

2023-01-03T16:49:13-05:00August 30th, 2022|The Vault|

BofA’s new no-down payment mortgage is another innovative product in which banks use their balance sheets to address their CRA obligations by offering down payment assistance or, as here, flat out nothing down.  The extent to which nonbanks can match these programs depends on the extent to which Fannie and Freddie are able and then willing to cross-subsidize ….

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9 06, 2022

FedFin on: Equitable Endeavors

2023-01-27T15:57:10-05:00June 9th, 2022|The Vault|

When Sandra Thompson earlier this year enunciated a new equitable-finance mission, we forecast that Fannie and Freddie would undertake an array of new activities that significantly expand their footprint along with their equity and equality impact.  As anticipated, the plans announced yesterday by Fannie and Freddie go beyond FHFA’s reiterated mission statement earlier this week, mirroring in some ways the banking agencies’ broad view of CRA as a community-development and racial-equity instrument as well as the boost to LMI housing on which attention long focused.  But, for all the public-good creds these plans engender, several will doubtless promote market angst as the GSEs launch pilots that tread heavily on MI, title-insurer, and servicer toes.

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21 04, 2022

FedFin: Risk-On CRT for a Risk-Off Market?

2023-03-02T10:38:46-05:00April 21st, 2022|The Vault|

In our last CRT analysis, we looked at transaction viability under the Basel IV rewrite set for rapid release once key Fed nominees are finally confirmed.  Now, we turn to another viability consideration: the extent to which CRT can thrive in spite of these capital obstacles and accomplish a vital purpose spelled out in a recent Urban Institute report: enhance equitable finance as FHFA demands.  In short, we hope so, but it won’t be easy.

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