Capital Market Solutions for Housing Affordability

While there may be questions about the future of the GSEs, capital is lining up to support affordability.

By Les Shaver | January 21, 2020 at 07:02 AM

The talk of privatizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac intensified in 2019 with the release of The Treasury Housing Reform Plan. In an environment where housing seems to become less affordable, that concerns some people because the GSEs finance a large amount of affordable housing.

“They [the GSEs] are mandated to provide a fair amount of that type of financing [for affordable housing],” says Brian Stoffers, global president of debt structured finance for capital markets at CBRE.

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