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A Guggenheim Executive’s Big Plan to Build Millions of New Homes

A potentially powerful new role for Fannie and Freddie.

Jim Millstein

Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg
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Jim Millstein, the Guggenheim Securities co-chair and former US Treasury official, has a plan to build millions of additional homes in America.

In an interview on the Odd Lots podcast, Millstein lays out a new approach that leverages the unique capacity of the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) known as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to jumpstart the production of affordable apartments and other multifamily projects.