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 2015 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 2016 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 6th to a 5-year term as the first Senate-confirmed Director of FHFA.
Read more about Director Watt
The Plain Writing Act of 2010 requires federal agencies to write "clear Government communication that the public can understand and use."
Federal agencies must use plain language in any document that:
is necessary for obtaining any federal government benefit or service or filing taxes;
provides information about any federal government benefit or service; or
explains to the public how to comply with a requirement that the federal government administers or enforces.
FHFA is committed to drafting documents in plain language using the Federal Plain Language Guidelines. Let us know if you have trouble understanding our documents or the pages on our website: plainlanguage@fhfa.gov.
Carrie Johnson is the Senior Agency Official for Plain Writing.
Plain Writing Act Compliance Report - 2014
Plain Writing Act Compliance Report - 2015
