Day 2-5: Beyond the Norm: Fannie Mae’s Alignment with Frontline Communities in Driving Resiliency | Sidra Goldwater

Fannie Mae is a government-sponsored enterprise that works to facilitate affordable housing in the United States. It purchases mortgages from lenders, bundles them into mortgage-backed securities, and sells them to investors. This replenishes lenders’ cash so they can originate new mortgages and helps create homeownership and rental opportunities for millions of Americans. Fannie Mae aims to understand and address climate risks to its business and the homeowners and renters it serves through initiatives focused on resiliency, insurance, awareness, and promoting affordable and equitable responses to climate change impacts.

Tune your ears as Sidra Goldwater, a Disaster Recovery & Rebuilding Advisor at Fannie Mae, provides insights on quantifying long-term risks, enhancing current and future housing stock resilience through programs, the importance of ongoing learning from stakeholders, practical resilience-driven solutions through strategic partnerships across the housing ecosystem, and so much more.