Helping you understand Freddie Mac's public policy positions on key legislative and industry issues

Cooling home prices, rising delinquencies and foreclosures, ARMs adjusting with higher interest rates, and the troubled subprime market – these industry challenges have become more pronounced in the recent months, making even bigger business and political headlines.

With a variety of opinions in a challenging mortgage market, Freddie Mac strives to provide thoughtful, credible and relevant information on important housing finance issues.

In particular, we invite you to visit Freddie Mac's Public Policy web center, where we share our viewpoint on a variety of issues that may impact the way we do business together and Freddie Mac's ability to fulfill our housing mission. On these web pages you'll find interviews with policy makers, data and analysis, Congressional testimony, news articles and op-eds, policy positions and more on:

• The subprime market and what Freddie Mac is doing to help stabilize the market.
• Legislative proposals to reform Freddie Mac as a government sponsored enterprise (GSE) and their potential impact on the market and your business.
• How Freddie Mac is providing liquidity, stability, and affordability to the mortgage market to ensure the continued vibrancy of the nation's housing markets and broader economy.

Link to other useful resources

Our Public Policy web center will also link you to other useful resources on FreddieMac.com that will provide you additional information how our mortgage solutions can help you:

• Create opportunities to reach potential homeowners.
• Realize new possibilities that maintain and enhance your business.
• Preserve dreams by expanding successful homeownership options that put your borrowers into homes they can afford and keep.