$1 million allocated for housing programs - 2004-01-29
One million dollars will be provided for housing programs in the city of Coon Rapids this year.
The funds, to be shared among five programs designed to maintain and improve the housing stock in the city, will come from the Coon Rapids Mortgage Assistance Foundation.

“The program does not duplicate currently available non-city funded housing programs,” said Lyle Haney, president of the mortgage assistance foundation.
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FHLB mortgage finance program grows rapidly in '03 - 2004-01-29
The Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago said the mortgage finance program it manages expanded w sharply in 2003, funding more than $72.1 billion of loans -- up 158 percent from a year ago.

The Mortgage Partnership Finance (MPF) program, started in 1997 by FHLB-Chicago, competes with the much larger mortgage securitization programs of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Government Mortgage Association in the secondary U.S. mortgage market.
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