Federal Credit Programs
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Report
The Federal Role in the Financing of Multifamily Rental Properties
December 3, 2015CBO reviews the federal government’s current role in the multifamily mortgage market and four broad approaches to modifying that role.
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Working Paper
Do Large-Scale Refinancing Programs Reduce Mortgage Defaults? Evidence From a Regression Discontinuity Design: Working Paper 2015-06
October 8, 2015In 2012, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) reduced fees to refinance FHA-insured mortgages obtained before a retroactive deadline. We estimate that the policy will prevent more than 35,000 defaults of FHA-insured mortgages.
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Data and Technical Information
Proposals for the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation—CBO's Estimate of the President's Fiscal Year 2016 Budget
March 12, 2015Estimates of Proposals
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Report
Options for Reducing the Deficit: 2015 to 2024
November 20, 2014CBO periodically issues a compendium of options—this installment presents 79—to inform lawmakers about the budgetary effects of ways to reduce the deficit. The report has both interactive and printable formats.
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Report
Federal Policies and Innovation
November 17, 2014The federal government influences innovation through two broad channels: spending and tax policies, and the legal and regulatory systems. Policymakers have a number of options for spurring additional innovation.
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Report
Answers to Questions for the Record Following a Hearing on the Export-Import Bank Conducted by the House Committee on Financial Services
October 6, 2014In June, CBO’s director testified before the House Financial Services Committee about CBO’s estimates of the cost of the credit programs of the Export-Import Bank. This document provides CBO’s answers to questions for the record.
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Report
Budgetary Estimates for the Single-Family Mortgage Guarantee Program of the Federal Housing Administration
September 23, 2014Loan guarantees made in the FHA’s single-family mortgage program between 1992 and 2013 are now projected to generate small costs over their lifetimes rather than the significant savings that were originally recorded in the federal budget.
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Presentation
Modeling the Budgetary Cost of FHA's Single Family Mortgage Insurance
September 16, 2014Presentation by Francesca Castelli, formerly of CBO; Gabriel Ehrlich, Damien Moore, and Jeffrey Perry, all of CBO, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Working Paper
Modeling the Budgetary Costs of FHA's Single Family Mortgage Insurance: Working Paper 2014-05
September 11, 2014This paper presents the simulation model that CBO uses to project the budgetary costs of the Federal Housing Administration’s (FHA’s) single-family mortgage insurance program.
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Cost Estimate
S. 1217, Housing Finance Reform and Taxpayer Protection Act of 2014
September 5, 2014As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on May 15, 2014