Recasting the Housing Finance Industry is a Three Step Process: Reform, Reorganize, Reassure
Posted To: Voice of Housing
In a recent Voice of Housing post , I lamented the fact that there seems to be shockingly little public debate underway concerning the future of the US Housing Finance Industry. I ended that post with the question ... in the industry's future form, is there any role left for the GSEs, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ? Intellectual honesty demands that I offer my answers to these questions in the hope that those answers serve as a catalyst for additional public discourse on this important topic. The US Housing Finance Industry is like a stool with 3 legs. One of those legs is the "government"-sector leg existing primarily through FHA and Ginnie Mae; the second leg is the "private"-sector leg and functions through large diversified financial institutions such as Bank of America...(read more)Forward this article via email: Send a copy of this story to someone you know that may want to read it.