The 44,000-member, $540 million National Institutes of Health Federal Credit Union, headquartered in Rockville, Md., has been working to prepare its housing finance program for whatever the federal government may choose to do with the two giant mortgage entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. "Nobody knows exactly what might happen, but we know we want to be in a position to offer our members mortgage loans so we need to be ready," said NIHFCU CEO Juli Anne Callis.
Callis, a former executive with Keypoint Financial Services, a mortgage CUSO wholly owned by the Keypoint Credit Union in Santa Clara, Calif., is fully committed to credit union mortgage lending and to building a very solid housing finance program.
"Credit unions have to be in the mortgage business," Callis argued, pointing out that not only are homes usually the single biggest purchase that members make, mortgage payments have a direct impact on household income as they are usually the largest expense in a household budget from month to month.
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