Despite momentum towards actually ending the conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac seemingly growing by the day, the Trump administration is reportedly concerned about the impact of widespread housing finance reform in advance of the 2020 election. And because of that concern, the administration may be considering holding off on significant reforms to the GSEs for at least another 18 months.

Now that he is officially installed as the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Mark Calabria is taking GSE reform head-on. Calabria seems set on privatizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, though not necessarily at the same time.

Bloomberg report: "Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s new overseer said the mortgage giants can be freed from government control even if Congress doesn’t pass a housing-finance overhaul, while signaling that lawmakers will get 'more than sufficient time' to come up with a plan of their own."

One of the nation’s two biggest mortgage financiers reports a “robust 5% total guarantee book growth, year over year — Single-Family grew 4% and Multifamily grew 14%.”

Mel Watt’s time as the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency is officially over. Watt became the first Senate-confirmed director of the FHFA back in 2014, and led the FHFA for five years, but his term as FHFA director ended on Jan. 6, 2019. Here's a look back at Watt's time at the FHFA and a look ahead at what's next.

According to Robert Schmidt, reporting for Bloomberg, vocal GSE critic Josh Rosner, who successfully runs a financial services business, is claiming financial disability is responsible for him not filing taxes accordingly. And now, Rosner wants his refund but the IRS is saying, "not so fast, loudmouth."

It’s now officially been 10 years since the government took Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into conservatorship. And in that decade, an uneasy status quo has developed with Fannie and Freddie dominating the housing finance system, despite their limited capital bases and unresolved position as wards of the federal government. But if House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling has anything to say about it in his final days in office, all of that uncertainty will soon be resolved.

With the 10-year anniversary of the government taking Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into conservatorship nigh upon us, a coalition of the housing industry’s largest trade groups, affordable housing advocates, and others is calling on the Trump administration and Congress to enact permanent reforms to the government-sponsored enterprises.