HUD's Housing Goals for the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) for the Years 2005-2008 and Amendments to HUD's Regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

Through this final rule, the Department of Housing and Urban Development establishes new housing goal levels for the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) (collectively, the government sponsored enterprises, or GSEs) for calendar years 2005 through 2008. The new housing goal levels are established in accordance with the Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 (FHEFSSA) and govern the purchase by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac of mortgages financing low- and moderate-income housing, special affordable housing, and housing in central cities, rural areas and other underserved areas. This rule also establishes new subgoals for the GSEs' acquisitions of home purchase loans that qualify for each of the housing goals. The final rule also establishes a new regulatory section relating to GSE data integrity, amends and adds certain definitions, provides a method for imputing the distribution of GSE- purchased mortgages that lack income data, prohibits goals credit for purchases of loans in transactions with an option to dissolve the purchase in less than one year, and makes a technical change to the counting rules to clarify HUD's rules on double counting of loans.