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Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending
By Steven A. Holmes The New York Times September 30, 1999

WASHINGTON, September 29, 1999  In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders.

The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets -- including the New York metropolitan region -- will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans. Fannie Mae officials say they hope to make it a nationwide program by next spring.

U.S. Lifts Limit On Aid To Fannie, Freddie
by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS December 25, 2009

The Treasury Department said it has removed the $400 billion cap on the money it will provide to keep beleaguered mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac afloat. The news followed an announcement Thursday that the CEOs of Fannie and Freddie could get paid as much as $6 million for 2009, despite the companies' dismal performances this year. 

Already, taxpayers have shelled out $111 billion to the pair, and a senior Treasury official said losses are not expected to exceed the government's estimate this summer of $170 billion over 10 years.

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