Housing Finance
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The Role of the Department of Veterans Affairs in the Single-Family Mortgage Market
CBO describes VA’s mortgage guarantee program, provides estimates of the budgetary costs of the program, and compares those costs with expenditures for other federal guarantees.
- Report
Report on the Troubled Asset Relief Program—July 2021
Congress created the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) in 2008 to stabilize financial markets. CBO estimates that the TARP’s net cost will be $31 billion—about what it reported in March 2020 and $1 billion lower than OMB’s latest estimate.
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Options for Reducing the Deficit: 2021 to 2030
CBO periodically issues a compendium of policy options and their effects on the federal budget. This document provides estimates of the budgetary savings from 83 options that would decrease federal spending or increase federal revenues.
- Cost Estimate
H.R. 7445, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to expand eligibility for home loans from the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to certain members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on July 30, 2020
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Effects of Recapitalizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Through Administrative Actions
CBO examines how recapitalizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac through administrative actions would affect such factors as CBO’s budget projections and cash flows between the two enterprises and their shareholders, including the Treasury.
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Estimates of the Cost of Federal Credit Programs in 2021
Using FCRA procedures, CBO estimates that new loans and loan guarantees issued in 2021 would result in savings of $41.8 billion. But using fair-value estimates, CBO projects that they would have a lifetime cost of $46.8 billion.
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Report on the Troubled Asset Relief Program—March 2020
Congress created the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) in 2008 to stabilize financial markets. CBO estimates that the TARP’s net cost will be $31 billion—about what it reported last April and slightly less than OMB’s latest estimate.
- Cost Estimate
H.R. 2162, Housing Financial Literacy Act of 2019
As passed by the House of Representatives on July 9, 2019
- Cost Estimate
H.R. 3154, Homeownership for DREAMers Act
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on June 11, 2019
- Cost Estimate
H.R. 3141, FHA Loan Affordability Act of 2019
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on June 11, 2019