Rural Areas Saw Disproportionate Home Price Growth During the Pandemic Thursday, May 16, 2024 Home prices rose at an unprecedented pace after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the result of record-low interest rates, the continued aging of millennials into prime homebuying years, and a... By PEYTON WHITNEY, ALEXANDER HERMANN
Housing Markets & Conditions What the FHFA Needs to Get Right in Its GSE Capital Rule Monday, October 7, 2019 In July 2018, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), regulator of the two government-sponsored... By DON LAYTON
Housing Markets & Conditions Temporarily Ending the GSE Net Worth Sweep: A Limited but Important Step Towards GSE Reform Wednesday, October 2, 2019 On Monday, September 30, the US Treasury and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the... By DON LAYTON
Housing Markets & Conditions Treasury’s GSE Reform Plan – A Case Study of Political Economy in Action Friday, September 27, 2019 The US Treasury released in early September its much-awaited Housing Reform Plan in response to the... By DON LAYTON
Housing Markets & Conditions How Deep Is the GSE ‘Economic Moat’? Wednesday, September 18, 2019 When policymakers focus on legislative reform of the GSEs, a core principle widely espoused is to... By DON LAYTON
Housing Markets & Conditions First Reactions: The Treasury Plan for GSE Reform by Administrative Means Monday, September 9, 2019 The US Treasury’s much-awaited Housing Reform Plan, identifying recommended legislative and... By DON LAYTON
Housing Markets & Conditions The 2018 GSE Stress Test Results: A Major Policy Success and Its Implications for the Proposed Capital Rule Wednesday, September 4, 2019 New stress test results for the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Freddie Mac and Fannie... By DON LAYTON
Housing Markets & Conditions Headlines from the 2019 State of the Nation’s Housing Report Wednesday, August 7, 2019 In the course of preparing our annual State of the Nation’s Housing report, we identify several... By DANIEL MCCUE
Housing Markets & Conditions GSE Reform: None or Mostly Done? Monday, August 5, 2019 Ever since the dust settled from the 2008 financial crisis, there has been focus in Washington on... By DON LAYTON
Housing Markets & Conditions Why Is the Administration Not Talking About Utility-Style Regulation of G-Fees? Tuesday, July 16, 2019 The latest administration pronouncements about the reform of the two giant government-sponsored... By DON LAYTON