The Federal Housing Finance Agency announced today that it has raised Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s 2016 caps for multifamily lending from $31 billion to $35 billion. The agency based its decision on increased estimates of the size of the U.S. multifamily market. Multifamily loans in designated affordable and underserved segments will remain excluded from the caps.
Bowman: Regulation preventing banks from engaging in economic innovations
The economy has changed significantly since the 2008 financial crisis, but regulation is holding back banks from fully engaging with those changes, Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman said.










