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- Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), a government-sponsored enterprise headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, and founded in 1970, provides liquidity, stability, and affordability to the U.S. housing finance system by purchasing residential mortgages from lenders, pooling them into mortgage-backed securities (MBS), and selling those securities to investors; guarantees timely payment of principal and interest on its MBS; and offers single-family mortgage products including HomeOne for first-time homebuyers with low down payments and no income limits, Home Possible for low- to moderate-income borrowers with discounted fees and as little as 3% down, conforming fixed-rate and adjustable-rate mortgages, and multifamily financing solutions such as Q-Series securitizations for stabilized properties and targeted affordable housing programs supporting units for households at or below 80% of area median income. Freddie Mac operates nationwide, focusing on single-family and multifamily segments serving homebuyers, renters, owners, lenders, and investors, under conservatorship of the Federal Housing Finance Agency since 2008. Recent developments include launching a machine learning-enhanced loan pricing advisor model and Freddie Mac Gateway platform to streamline origination and servicing with lower costs and faster lender onboarding generating $6 billion in added liquidity; recognizing 2025 Multifamily Impact Sponsors like FCP for advancing affordable housing; and facing Trump administration plans for potential privatization via IPO by late 2025 amid ongoing discussions of capital restructuring and market reforms.