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Demand for advances from the Home Loan banks has plummeted as the Federal Reserve has flooded the financial system with liquidity. But with a nudge from Congress, these government-sponsored enterprises could remain relevant by broadening their mission and opening membership to more lenders.

He also told the Senate that he wanted to retire the word “transitory” to describe price increases, and he said inflation pressures will “linger well into next year.”

Acting Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Sandra Thompson and the Housing Policy Council say the new amounts are not good for affordable housing.

Higher sales commissions helped to drive production costs to their second-highest level since the Mortgage Bankers Association started its survey in 2008.

The collateral pools consists of 578 loans, and the trust uses a senior-subordinate, shifting-interest structure that helps maintain a longer subordination period.

Any reinvestment assets chosen for the trust must be a healthcare property, and they must be intended for refinance with the proceeds of an agency mortgage loan.

Federal Reserve officials at their last meeting stressed the need for flexibility on how quickly they will scale back their bond-buying program as well as the timing of interest-rate increases, before data showed inflation accelerating.

The deal also provides a sequential principal distribution to all of the certificates at all times, unlike recent non-prime securitizations.

Due in part to pandemic-related forbearance, GSE portfolio loans with year-plus delinquencies hit the highest point seen since the Federal Housing Finance Agency started tracking them in 2015.

However, capacity issues, the suspension of the government-sponsored enterprise purchase caps and higher conforming limits all could affect activity, KBRA said.