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The U.S. housing regulator on Wednesday announced its second step in as many days to help ease the liquidity strain in the mortgage market.

FILE PHOTO: A 'for sale' is seen outside a single family house in Garden City, New York, U.S. on May 23, 2016. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File PhotoThe Federal Housing Finance Agency said mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would be allowed to buy home loans that have recently entered forbearance or loans where borrowers have stopped making payments.

On Tuesday, the regulator said it would cap the number of payments mortgage companies must advance to investors in some government-backed mortgage bonds, in response to weeks of lobbying by industry groups warning of a brewing crisis.

 

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