FHFA publishes new comprehensive dataset

The Federal Housing Finance Agency published a first-of-its-kind dataset on mortgage risk from 1990-2019, which contains aggregated results using more than 200 million purchase-money and refinance mortgages.

The agency stated the data included in the revised working paper leads researchers to challenge some long-held assumptions about the impetus of the 2008 financial crisis.

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