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The Effects of Flood Damage on the Subsidy Cost of Federally Backed Mortgages: Working Paper 2024-04

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  • Evan Herrnstadt
  • Byoung Hark Yoo

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This paper uses data on mortgages and expected flood damage for each residential property in the United States to examine how much flood damage is expected to increase the cost of federally backed mortgages (referred to as the subsidy cost). The Congressional Budget Office uses its estimate of the subsidy cost to determine the budgetary effects of mortgages guaranteed directly by the federal government and through entities such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The analysis focuses only on costs to the federal mortgage programs and does not consider any costs borne by

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  • Evan Herrnstadt & Byoung Hark Yoo, 2024. "The Effects of Flood Damage on the Subsidy Cost of Federally Backed Mortgages: Working Paper 2024-04," Working Papers 60167, Congressional Budget Office.
    • Handle: RePEc:cbo:wpaper:60167
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    JEL classification:

    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • H60 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - General
    • H81 - Public Economics - - Miscellaneous Issues - - - Governmental Loans; Loan Guarantees; Credits; Grants; Bailouts
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming

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