MBA Secondary: Can Fannie and Freddie help fix the housing shortage?

Desmond Smith, senior vice president and head of customer delivery at Fannie Mae, and Kevin Palmer, senior vice president of single family credit risk transfer at Freddie Mac, outlined their agencies’ efforts to make the entire mortgage process simpler and easier. And that’s a good thing, since the agencies facilitate the lion’s share — maybe even the elephant’s share — of the secondary mortgage market.