Fannie Mae

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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 by purchasing or securitizing the loans behind 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 backed $70 billion in multifamily financing in 2019, with the overwhelming bulk of that supporting affordable-housing units. Revenues ticked up 1% last year; profits, however, slid 11%.