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- Blog Post
CBO examined 28 options that encompass a broad range of discretionary programs. About a third of the options would affect defense programs; the rest are for nondefense programs.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on July 31, 2013
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on July 24, 2013
- Blog Post
How is FHA’s Mutual Mortgage Insurance fund structured and can it run out of funds?
- Report
Spending on means-tested programs and tax credits for low-income households has grown in the past 40 years because of increases in the number of program participants and growth in spending per participant.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on June 6, 2013
- Report
The cost to the federal government of the TARP’s transactions, including grants for mortgage programs that have not yet been made, will amount to $21 billion, CBO estimates—$3 billion less than it previously projected.
- Report
CBO examined three options for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to use principal forgiveness for certain underwater borrowers. How would those options affect the number of mortgage defaults, the federal budget, and the overall economy?
- Working Paper
CBO releases companion working paper to its report Modifying Mortgages Involving Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Options for Principal Forgiveness.
- Blog Post
What role should the government play in the secondary market for residential mortgages, and what should become of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? CBO has analyzed some of the key choices to be made regarding the future structure of that market.