On June 3, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) sent for publication a final rule on the Federal Home Loan Banks’ Housing Goals, which eliminates the retrospective evaluation using HMDA data and set a single prospective mortgage purchase housing goal as a share of each FHLBank’s total Acquired Member Asset purchases. The rule also sets a new small member participation housing goal for participation by small institutions, eliminates the volume threshold and simplifies the eligibility criteria to enable federally backed loans sold by small institutions eligible to count for goals purposes. Release.