Fannie Mae

Government–backed Fannie Mae remains a vital cog in the U.S. housing market. Fannie provided more than $650 billion in liquidity to the residential mortgage market last year across more than 3 million home purchases, re-financings, and rentals. In addition to financing roughly one in four single-family mortgages in the U.S., the company provided $70 billion in multifamily financing in 2019, with the overwhelming bulk of that backing affordable units. Revenues ticked up 1% last year; profits, however, were harder to come by. They slid 11%.