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Fannie Mae Pledges $50 Bil For SoCal

LOS ANGELES-The five-year plan is aimed at spurring construction of affordable rental housing in LA and Orange counties and helping current tenants acquire a home of their own. New commitment is particularly welcome in LA, where city's efforts to build a similar fund of its own have stalled.

By David W. Myers | Updated on November 12, 2001

LOS ANGELES-In its largest such commitment ever, mortgage giant Fannie Mae has announced plans to provide $50 billion over the next five years to spur the development of more affordable rental housing in LA and Orange counties and to help current tenants purchase a home of their own.

The commitment provides a particularly large boost to Los Angeles, where the city’s once-promising efforts to build a similar $100-million fund of its own have stalled in the wake of a slowing economy. Compounding problems, LA’s hopes that federal subsidies would account for a large share of the city-run fund have been dashed now that the US Treasury’s own reserves are dwindling and billions of federal dollars are being re-directed to help New York and other areas recover from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Fannie Mae does not make loans directly to buyers or builders, but instead purchases the loans from lenders. Its $50-billion commitment will include a program to provide low-cost equity and debt financing for developers of apartments and affordable single-family homes, says Ted Chandler, vice president of housing and community development for Fannie Mae’s regional office in Pasadena.

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