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Housing Policy: The Message is as Important as the Mechanism

By admin | February 5, 2010

pPosted To: a href="/channels/voiceofhousing/default.aspx"Voice of Housing/a/pThe nationrsquo;s capital is quickly shutting down, now that forecasters are calling for one to two feet of snow overnight. Local authorities warn residents to prepare to ldquo;shelter in placerdquo; for three days. Expect housing-minded Washingtonians to be hunkered down in their homes this weekend huddled around the fire reading the Obama Administrationrsquo;s proposal for the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Oh wait, that long-awaited plan didnrsquo;t materialize this week. ( READ MORE ) Already some folks are taking shots at the Administration for not coming through with new ideas as promised for how to deal with the two housing GSEs. But is that fair? Frankly, a reengineering of the secondary market is going to take some serious time . And brains. Itrsquo;ll require some of...(a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/voiceofhousing/133642.aspx"read more/a)pdiv style="background-color:#D4EDC9;border:1px solid #BDD4B3;padding:3px 5px 3px 6px; color:#000000;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;"strongForward this article via email:/strongnbsp;nbsp;a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/133642/3/forward.aspx" style="color:#3333CC;"Send a copy of this story/a to someone you know that may want to read it./div/pimg src="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=133642" width="1" height="1"

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