Leadership
Executive Director
Scott Olson
Scott has over 20 years experience working on Capitol Hill, 15 of which he served on the House Financial Services Committee, where he held a title of Housing Policy Director. He worked extensively on housing finance issues, including GSE reform, FHA legislation, mortgage regulations, and mortgage servicing issues. Scott Olson also has six years private sector experience as a public finance investment banker and four years experience in commercial real estate finance and investments.
POLICY Director
Craig Thomas
Craig joined CHLA in July 2020 after a 30-year career at Freddie Mac, where he served in a variety of external relations roles, including Congressional relations, regulatory relations, and public policy. Most recently, as Freddie Mac’s Senior Director of Government and Industry Relations, he was a top member of its Congressional Affairs team and managed its State Relations team. He has broad knowledge and experience in a variety of housing finance issues, especially the GSEs and their business, and housing finance reform.
INSIDE mortgage finance: CHLA, other groups weigh in on gse financial requirements
An Inside Mortgage Finance article about FHFA’s Listening Session on proposed increases in GSE seller/servicer financial requirements highlights CHLA’s presentation by Taylor Stork (Developers Mortgage)
National Mortgage news: Margin call requirement in FHFA proposal draws concern
A National Mortgage News story quotes Taylor Stork of Developers Mortgage highlighting CHLA’s call to exempt all smaller seller/servicers from FHFA’s proposed 2% TBA hedging
HOUSING WIRE: FHFA gets blowback on proposed liquidity requirements
A Housing Wire article on the FHFA Listening Session on GSE seller/servicer financial requirement cites CHLA Exec. Dir. Scott Olson pointing out that the 2%