This NYT article notes that the proposal to have Fannie Mae sells its housing tax credits to Goldman Sachs is a loser for the Treasury. The article would have benefited from one additional sentence pointing out that Goldman's claim that buying the tax credit will help the low-income housing market is therefore bogus, because the government could help the market at lower cost by providing the money directly to Fannie and Freddie.
--Dean Baker
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