The pair of mortgage - finance giants, which were bailed out by the U.S. government and placed in conservatorship in 2008 during the height of the financial crisis, have historically boasted outsize influence on the
single -
family mortgage market, but Rosengren expressed concern that the duo's growing clout in the multifamily sector may pose a risks,
as the government considers new structures for the
entities, created in the wake of the Great Depression to help facilitate homeownership.