Fannie Mae (FNMA)

[Robert from yahoo bd]

That's because the federal government has stripped over $300B from the twins and they don't have anything left to raid! It looks like the federal government is ready to put $200B to $300B in housing (if these new bills pass) to address what has been a 10+ year shortage of building exacerbated by the pendulum of residential mortgage underwriting going from extremely lax in the early 2000's to very prudent.

If housing prices and builders profits keep rising, builders will supply more housing.