This annual report describes FHFA's accomplishments, as well as challenges, the agency faced in meeting the strategic goals and objectives during the past fiscal year.
Read about the agency’s 2016 examinations of Fannie Mac, Freddie Mac and the Home Loan Bank System.
Submit comments and provide input on FHFA Rules Open for Comment by clicking on Rulemaking and Federal Register.
Goal: Help restore confidence, enhance capacity to fulfill mission, and mitigate systemic risk that contributed directly to instability in financial markets.
MAINTAIN foreclosure prevention activities and credit availability, REDUCE taxpayer risk, and BUILD a new single-family securitization infrastructure. Read more in the 2018 Scorecard and Conservatorships Strategic Plan.
Plans and Reports
FHFA experts provide reliable data, including all states, about activity in the U.S. mortgage market through its House Price Index, Refinance Report, Foreclosure Prevention Report, and Performance Report.
HARP - the Home Affordable Refinance Program was created by FHFA specifically to help homeowners current on their mortgage payments, but underwater on their mortgages.
FHFA economists and policy experts provide reliable research and policy analysis about critical topics impacting the nation’s housing finance sector. Meet the experts...
Key Topics pages provide information about FHFA's work on a range of issues facing the nation and highlight the most relevant related news releases, reports, statements and web pages on the respective topics.
The Honorable Melvin L. Watt of Charlotte, NC sworn in on January 6, 2014 to a 5-year term as the first Senate-confirmed Director of FHFA.
Read more about Director Watt
The Neighborhood Stabilization Initiative (NSI) is designed to stabilize neighborhoods hardest hit by the housing downturn. It was jointly developed by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and includes strategies for disposing of the inventory of real estate owned (REO) properties held by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. While the number of REO properties owned by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is declining and approaching pre-crisis levels in some states, in some areas of the country REO inventory continues to remain near historic highs. Some particular markets have large concentrations of distressed and low-value REO properties as well as large volumes of loans that had been delinquent for more than one to two years that are likely to become REO.
Given the unique challenges presented by these markets—high vacancy rates, weak for-sale markets, steep home-price declines—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac selected the National Community Stabilization Trust (NCST), a national non-profit organization experienced in stabilization efforts for distressed communities to implement the NSI. Working together, they leverage their ties to "boots on the ground" community organizations and local non-profits, and work closely with local governments to make timely and informed decisions about the best treatment of individual properties.
NSI was initiated as a pilot in the city of Detroit, Michigan in May 2014, and was then expanded to Cook County, Illinois in April 2015. Building on the lessons learned from the pilot, NSI was developed into a program and was expanded in December 2015 to 18 different metropolitan statistical areas with high volumes of low-value REO inventory. In December 2017, 10 additional markets were designated for further expansion.
