FHFA Director Bill Pulte has prioritized targeting fraud, including proposing a tougher Suspended Counterparty Program and ...

Joe Light wrote about housing and mortgages for The Wall Street Journal in New York. His coverage areas included Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and government housing-finance policy, as well as other ...

These alternative mortgages are backed by government sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae which was established in 1938 as the Federal National Mortgage Association, and Freddie Mac, established in ...

He removed senior executives at the companies and the FHFA, which regulates Fannie and Freddie ... that oversaw fair-housing rules for the Federal Home Loan Bank system, a source of liquidity ...

The Trump administration is weighing an executive order that could accelerate efforts to privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ... consider potential effects on mortgage rates.