特朗普政府不会在短期内放松联邦政府对抵押贷款巨头房利美和房地美的控制。
The Trump administration isn’t loosening the federal government’s grip on mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac any time soon.
财政部长斯科特·贝森特周二表示：“我想，明年、后年，我们会着手处理所有权结构问题。”他称，目前尚“不清楚”“股东结构安排的变化”将如何惠及购房者。
“I would imagine that the next year, the year after, we will be tackling the ownership structure,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday, calling it “unclear” for now how “a change in the arrangement of the shareholder structure” would benefit homeowners.
总统唐纳德·特朗普今年夏天曾表示，他仍在考虑出售政府在房利美和房地美持有的部分股份，这些股份是在2008年金融危机后购入的。但任何将它们从托管中释放出来的举动都可能推高抵押贷款利率，贝森特称这是“我们的北极星”。商务部今天上午表示，9月份住房开工率下降5.2%，住宅建设出现下滑。与此同时，抵押贷款利率近期达到2023年11月以来的最高水平。
President Donald Trump said this summer that he was still considering selling some of the government’s shares in Fannie and Freddie, purchased after the 2008 financial crisis. But any move to release them from conservatorship is likely to spike mortgage rates, which Bessent called “our North Star.”Housing starts dropped 5.2% in September, the Commerce Department said this morning, as residential construction slumped. Mortgage rates, meanwhile, recently reached their highest levels since November 2023.