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- Cost Estimate
As posted on the Web site of the House Committee on Rules (Committee Print 112-34) and subsequently amended on November 28, 2012
- Working Paper
Taxation of Owner-Occupied and Rental Housing
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on September 20, 2012 S. 65 would reauthorize the Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grant and Loan Guarantee programs and would authorize the appropriation of such sums as necessary for those programs for each fiscal year through 2015. In addition, the bill would authorize loans provided under title VI of the Native American Housing Assistance and Self- Determination Act of 1996 for each fiscal year through 2015 and would expand eligibility for that program to include the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL).
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on July 11, 2012 H.R. 5747 would reduce direct spending by extending for one month an expiring provision of law that limits pensions paid to certain veterans who are receiving Medicaid coverage in a Medicaid-approved nursing home.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on September 12, 2012 H.R. 6361 would modify certain formulas for calculating subsidies to families that receive federal housing assistance. Assuming that future appropriations actions are consistent with the bill, CBO estimates that implementing H.R. 6361 would reduce discretionary spending for the affected programs by $270 million over the 2013-2017 period. Enacting the bill would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply.
- Cost Estimate
As introduced in the United States Senate on May 10, 2012 The Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) is administered by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to assist certain homeowners with refinancing mortgages that are guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, also known collectively as the housing government-sponsored enterprises, or GSEs. S. 3085 would require the FHFA to expand the number of homeowners that are eligible to participate in HARP and reduce the initial costs of the program to homeowners. The bill also would:
- Report
CBO provides an illustrative analysis of the federal government’s costs for credit programs following two approaches.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on April 27, 2012 H.R. 4482 would make permanent the authority of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to guarantee adjustable-rate mortgages and hybrid adjustable-rate mortgages (that is, mortgages with a rate that is fixed for an initial period and adjustable thereafter). Subsidy costs of those additional loan guarantees—totaling $144 million over the 2013-2022 period—would be paid from a mandatory appropriation; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures apply.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on March 27, 2012
- Blog Post
Today CBO released the latest in a series of statutory reports on transactions undertaken as part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)—the program established in October 2008, during the financial crisis, to enable the Department of the Treasury to promote stability in financial markets through the purchase and guarantee of "troubled assets." CBO also updated its infographic on the TARP, which summarizes the most pertinent details about the program since its inception: the types of assistance, cash disbursements,