The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the agency that regulates Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and the Federal Home Loan Banks, has determined that certain energy retrofit lending programs present significant safety and soundness concerns that must be addressed by its regulatees. Specifically, programs denominated as Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) seek to foster lending for retrofits of residential or commercial properties through a county or city’s tax assessment regime.
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