Notice of Order: Revisions to Enterprise Public Use Database
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SUMMARY: Section 1323(a)(1) of the Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 (Safety and Soundness Act), as amended, requires the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to make available to the public the non-proprietary single-family and multifamily loan-level mortgage data elements submitted to FHFA by the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) (collectively, the Enterprises) in their mortgage reports required under their charter acts. This responsibility to maintain a public use database (PUDB) for such mortgage data was transferred to FHFA from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) pursuant to sections 1122, 1126 and 1127 of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (HERA), and was expanded to include data elements required to be reported under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act of 1975 (HMDA).
Specifically, section 1126 of HERA amended section 1323 of the Safety and Soundness Act by requiring that the Enterprises’ mortgage reports include the data elements required to be reported under HMDA at the census tract level, and that such data elements be disclosed to the public. In addition, section 1127 of HERA amended section 1326 of the Safety and Soundness Act by requiring that, subject to privacy considerations as described in section 304(j) of HMDA, the Director of FHFA shall, by regulation or order, provide that certain information relating to single-family mortgage data of the Enterprises shall be disclosed to the public in order to make available to the public—(1) the same data from the Enterprises that is required of insured depository institutions under HMDA; and (2) information collected by the Director of FHFA under section 1324(b)(6) of the Safety and Soundness Act, as amended, for the purpose of comparing the characteristics of high-cost securitized loans.
FHFA provided each Enterprise with an opportunity to review and comment on FHFA’s proposed revisions to the single-family and multifamily PUDB matrices which describe the data fields provided in the PUDB. FHFA has taken the Enterprises’ comments into consideration, and has adopted an Order that implements certain changes required by HERA to the Enterprises’ mortgage loan data reporting and the disclosure of such data in the PUDB. The Order also makes technical changes to the single-family and multifamily data matrices of the PUDB to conform the data fields to long-standing PUDB data reporting practice, to provide greater clarity, or to conform to the new statutory requirements. The Notice of Order sets forth FHFA’s Order with accompanying Appendix containing the revised matrices, and describes the changes made to the data fields in the matrices. Changes to the PUDB matrices required by HERA relating to high-cost securitized loans, as well as the Enterprise housing goals for 2010 and beyond, will be implemented by the issuance of subsequent Orders.
DATES: Effective Date of the Order: The Order with accompanying Appendix is effective on July 1, 2010.