Callahan & Associates is urging credit unions to pushforward with housing finance programs and aim to write 20% of thenation's mortgage loans.

Credit unions wrote 8% of the nation's mortgage loans in the first quarter of2012, a new high. Callahan's suggested aiming to write 20% of thenation's mortgage loans by the year 2020.

“The window of opportunity is not going to stay openindefinitely. We should set our minds to our new goal and take thefirst steps now,” said Jay Johnson, the Washington-based consultancy's executive vicepresident.

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