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HFA Advantage Overview Video

Watch our new video and discover how HFA Advantage expands homeownership opportunities for very low-, low, and moderate-income borrowers.

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We’ve compiled Freddie Mac’s most current affordable and equitable housing research, insights, and thought leadership in one convenient place. Click any of the links below to explore more about how we can work together to help aspiring homebuyers overcome barriers and achieve responsible, sustainable homeownership.

NEW! How Lenders Can Help Borrowers Boost Down Payments with DPA One®

Freddie Mac developed DPA One®, a free, online solution, to help lenders effectively and efficiently match home purchase borrowers to DPA programs.

NEW! Making Home Possible – and Sustainable

Learn more about our efforts to providing stability and sustainability to the housing finance system, so it continues to work for current and future generations.

NEW! Making Good on Our Duty to Serve

Gain insight into our road map for identifying housing challenges in underserved markets and finding opportunities to make home possible for low- to middle-income homebuyers and renters.

Qualify More Borrowers with Updated 2023 AMI Limits

Freddie Mac updated Loan Product Advisor® (LPA℠) and the Area Median Income and Property Eligibility Tool with updated AMI limits. If you participate in an HFA program, consult the HFA’s website for income eligibility and associated pricing of their Freddie Mac HFA Advantage® offerings.

Low-Income Homebuyers Are Less Likely to Migrate from Cities, More Likely to Miss Potential Cost Savings

The COVID-19 pandemic led to an increase in migration away from larger, more expensive areas toward more affordable ones. Read this Freddie Mac research brief for a deeper dive.

NEW! Transforming Our Educational Tools to Meet the Needs of More Consumers

Freddie Mac’s CreditSmart® suite of financial capability and homeownership education resources puts consumers in a better position to reach their personal financial and housing goals and begin to build generational wealth.

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October Loan Product Advisor Releases

October 2023 Loan Product Advisor® Releases

Loan Product Advisor® (LPA℠) releases are ramping up to help expand your loan underwriting capabilities, so you can turn more of your borrowers into homeowners.

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DPA One®

DPA One is a free, online resource developed for housing professionals. DPA One is designed to help you quickly find, understand, and match down payment assistance (DPA) programs for borrowers who need financial assistance to purchase a home.

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HFA Advantage®

The Freddie Mac HFA Advantage® mortgage is a conventional mortgage product available exclusively to housing finance agencies (HFAs) seeking strategic solutions to diversify their product offerings and portfolio mix.

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Affordable Solutions Spotlight

Explore this guide to Freddie Mac affordable solutions and discover the insights, educational tools, mortgage solutions, business and technology capabilities and resources that you can use to make home possible.

Affordable Lending Training

Affordable Lending Training

Check out these available resources to help you leverage our affordable lending solutions.

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Housing and Economic Research

Original research and analysis on housing trends, the economy and the mortgage market.

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Equitable Housing

See how Freddie Mac, and you, can help to advance homeownership and increase generational wealth building in communities of color.

Housing Finance Agencies: A Key Partner in Equitable Housing

Different stakeholders within the mortgage and housing industry play a role in decreasing barriers to homeownership. Kasey Kier, Assistant Commissioner at Minnesota Housing, and Tamela Thurman, Director, Freddie Mac's Single-Family Equitable Housing Team discuss ways to address the array of complex issues communities of color face in attaining, sustaining and building wealth through homeownership.

Home Starts Here Podcast

Upcoming Events

Date Time Type Event
Date: 12/7/2023 Time: 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Type:Webinar Event:Qualify More Borrowers with HFA Advantage

Past Events & Presentations

Date Time Type Event
Date: 7/19/2023 Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Type:Webinar Event:2023 HFA Western Regional Symposium
Date: 5/18/2023 Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Type:Webinar Event:2023 HFA Central Regional Symposium
Date: 4/19/2023 Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Type:Webinar Event:2023 HFA Eastern Regional Symposium

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