WATCH: FHFA Director Watt ensures HARP is not a scam”

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August 1, 2017 Mel Watt Capital Buffer Doing all of this will take time, as will confirming a nominee for the FHFA. According to the Housing and Economic Recovery Act, Watt can stay in his role until there is a successor confirmed. Because assembling a financial regulatory team in the Trump administration has been slow at best, it is not clear this will be a top priority for the White House.

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 · ”Our overriding objective is to ensure that there is broad liquidity in the housing-finance market and to do so in a way that is safe and sound,” Watt said.

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“FHFA will set an ambitious agenda that ensures that the mortgage market and FHFA’s regulated entities do not return to pre-financial crisis business models,” Calabria wrote in an opening letter, which was released Wednesday along with the full report.

Mel Watt speaks before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services today, here is the statement.. FHFA Director Mel Watt says (see following red colored text) it would be "irresponsible" for the GSEs not to have a substantial capital buffer to whether operating losses without having to draw additional taxpayer support.

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President Trump has said he intends to nominate Mark Calabria, the chief economist for Vice President Mike Pence, as Watt’s permanent replacement. But because that nomination is likely to stretch well into the new year, Trump said Friday that Comptroller of the Currency Joseph Otting will serve as acting FHFA director once Watt leaves.

This is about the same as in the past several years, but up from 53% in 2008. However, Gallup has determined that Americans are not pessimistic about homeownership: 33% believe housing prices will. In the book, Graham draws primarily on Gallup. educated Americans has nearly doubled since 1972.