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Notice of Order: Revisions to Data Requirements for Enterprise Public Use Database (PUDB) to Include New Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Data Elements

Notice Details
Type
Notice
Number
2020-N-11
Group
Fannie Mae
Freddie Mac
Document Number
2020-11819
Federal Register Publish Date
06/03/2020
Federal Register Citation
85 FR 34196
PDF Format
Effective Date
05/27/2020

Notice of Order: Revisions to Data Requirements for Enterprise Public Use Database (PUDB) to Include New Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Data Elements

Contact Information

​FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions on data or methodology, contact Ian Keith, Senior Program Analyst, (202) 649-3114, Ian.Keith@fhfa.gov; for legal questions, contact Maura Dundon, Assistant General Counsel, (202) 649-3961, Maura.Dundon@fhfa.gov, or Sharon Like, Managing Associate General Counsel, (202) 649-3057, Sharon.Like@fhfa.gov (these are not toll-free numbers); Federal Housing Finance Agency, 400 Seventh Street, SW, Washington, DC 20219. If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability, please dial 7-1-1 to access telecommunications relay services. Additionally, the TDD 1-(800) number referenced in Rulemaking documents attached to this page is obsolete and the 7-1-1 number should be used.

Summary

​SUMMARY: An Order issued by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) on May 27, 2020 revises data requirements for the Enterprise Public Use Database (PUDB) and modifies FHFA's previous Enterprise PUDB Orders dated July 1, 2010 (75 FR 41180, 41189 (July 15, 2010)) and September 21, 2011 (76 FR 60031, 60036 (Sept. 28, 2011)). The Enterprise PUDB contains data related to single-family and multifamily mortgages purchased by the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) (collectively, the Enterprises) in a calendar year. FHFA publishes the PUDB annually pursuant to the requirements of the Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 (Safety and Soundness Act). The Order revises the PUDB to include data elements that the Enterprises collected in 2018 from their loan sellers that are the same as those required to be reported under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act of 1975 (HMDA), and sets out the privacy protections for the HMDA data. The Order also adds geographic indicators related to the Enterprise Duty to Serve program to the Enterprise PUDB to provide greater transparency to the public about the Enterprises' Duty to Serve activities. All the data specifications set out in the Order apply to future annual PUDB releases, until further modified by FHFA.

A new 2018 PUDB will be released by FHFA containing the data elements added by the Order, replacing an interim PUDB released on September 23, 2019 that does not include the new HMDA data elements or Duty to Serve geographic indicators. The revised matrices setting out the PUDB data requirements and privacy and proprietary protection modifications are available on FHFA's website at https://www.fhfa.gov/data/public-use-database-fannie-mae-and-freddie-mac. The expansion of the PUDB data requirements will enhance transparency about the Enterprises' mortgage purchase activities.

DATES: The Order is applicable May 27, 2020.