UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant To Section 13 or 15(d)

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): December 21, 2017

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Freddie Mac

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (703) 903-2000

Not applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

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Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

On December 21, 2017, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) released the 2018 Scorecard for Freddie Mac (formally known as the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation).

One-half of a participating officer’s At-Risk Deferred Salary (or 15% of Target Total Direct Compensation) under the terms of the 2015 Executive Management Compensation Program is subject to reduction based on an assessment of Freddie Mac’s performance against the Scorecard objectives and other objectives set by FHFA. The Scorecard is set forth below:

2018 Scorecard for Freddie Mac

For all Scorecard items, Freddie Mac will be assessed based on the following criteria:

Assessment Criteria

Maintain, in a safe and sound manner, credit availability and foreclosure prevention activities for new and refinanced mortgages to foster liquid, efficient, competitive, and resilient national housing finance markets. (40%)

FHFA expects Freddie Mac to efficiently and effectively operate its single-family and multifamily business activities in a manner that supports safety and soundness, market liquidity, and access to credit.

Freddie Mac is to:

Continue efforts to increase access to single-family mortgage credit for creditworthy borrowers, including underserved segments of the market:

Finalize post-crisis loss mitigation activities:

Continue to responsibly support the Neighborhood Stabilization Initiative.

Assess the current mortgage servicing business model and develop plans to support ongoing liquidity in the mortgage servicing market:

Single-Family Rental Strategies:

Develop plans to further support liquidity in the multifamily workforce housing market and consider market cost differences:

Manage the dollar volume of new multifamily business to remain at or below $35 billion for Freddie Mac:

Reduce taxpayer risk through increasing the role of private capital in the mortgage market. (30%)

FHFA expects Freddie Mac to continue single-family and multifamily credit risk transfers as core business practices. FHFA will adjust targets as necessary to reflect market conditions and economic considerations. FHFA expects Freddie Mac to continue to refine and improve its credit risk transfer programs. FHFA expects Freddie Mac to transfer a meaningful amount of credit risk and will publish in CRT progress reports the actual amount of credit risk transferred by Freddie Mac.

Freddie Mac is to:

Single-Family Credit Risk Transfers:

Multifamily Credit Risk Transfers:

Retained Portfolio:

Private Mortgage Insurer Eligibility Requirements (PMIERs 2.0):

Build a new single-family infrastructure for use by the Enterprises and adaptable for use by other participants in the secondary market in the future. (30%)

Common Securitization Platform (CSP) and Single Security Initiative:

The Enterprises and Common Securitization Solutions, LLC (CSS) are to implement the Single Security Initiative on the CSP for both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae in the second quarter of 2019.

Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (the “Enterprises”) are to:

Provide Active Support for Mortgage Data Standardization Initiatives:

Appendix A: Multifamily Definitions

The 2018 Scorecard establishes a $35 billion cap on the multifamily purchase volume of each Enterprise (the “capped category”). Loans in affordable and underserved market segments are excluded from the cap (the “excluded category”). FHFA will review its estimates of the multifamily loan origination market size on a quarterly basis. If FHFA determines that the actual 2018 market size is greater than was projected, it will apply an appropriate increase to the capped category. If FHFA determines that the actual 2018 market size is smaller than was projected, it will not reduce the capped category.

The following sections explain how FHFA will treat loans in the affordable and underserved market segments.

Targeted affordable housing loans are loans to properties encumbered by a regulatory agreement or a recorded use restriction under which all or a portion of the units are restricted for occupancy by tenants with limited incomes and which restrict the rents that can be charged for those units. FHFA will exclude a proportionate amount of the loan for properties in the targeted affordable category, depending on the percentage of units that are restricted by a regulatory agreement or recorded use restriction. FHFA will exclude from the cap 50 percent of the loan amount if the percentage of restricted units is less than 50 percent of the total units in a project, and will exclude 100 percent of the loan amount if the percentage of restricted units is equal to or more than 50 percent.

The following are examples of loans on targeted affordable housing properties that FHFA will exclude from the capped category:

On a case-by-case basis, FHFA will consider Enterprise requests to exclude other loans from the capped category that meet affordable housing and mission goals but do not meet the exact definition of targeted affordable housing.

FHFA will exclude from the capped category units whose rents are affordable to tenants at various income thresholds but that are not subject to a regulatory agreement or recorded use restriction. FHFA will exclude the pro rata portion of the loan amount based on the percentage of units with affordable, unsubsidized/market rents, as described below.

Standard markets are those that are not located in rural areas or in designated high cost, very high cost, or extremely high cost markets. For properties located in these markets, the income threshold for affordability is 60 percent of AMI or below.

In high cost markets as designated by FHFA, the income threshold for affordability is 80 percent of AMI or below. In very high cost markets as designated by FHFA, the income threshold for affordability is 100 percent of AMI or below. In extremely high cost markets as designated by FHFA, the income threshold for affordability is 120 percent of AMI or below.

Rural areas are those areas designated as such in the Duty to Serve rule. FHFA will exclude the pro rata portion of the loan amount based on the percentage of units affordable at 80 percent of AMI or below. Very high cost and extremely high cost market adjustments are not available.

Small multifamily properties are properties that have 5 to 50 units. FHFA will exclude the pro rata portion of the loan amount based on the percentage of units affordable at 80 percent of AMI or below in standard and high cost markets, 100 percent of AMI or below in very high cost markets, and 120 percent of AMI or below in extremely high cost markets.

Loans to manufactured housing rental communities are blanket loans secured by the land and the rental pads. FHFA will exclude the full loan amount of a manufactured housing rental community blanket loan.

For loans on seniors housing assisted living properties, FHFA will exclude the pro rata portion of the loan amount based on the percentage of units affordable at 80 percent of AMI or below.

Loans to finance energy or water efficiency improvements are loans funded by the Enterprises under their own specialized financing programs for this purpose. The full loan amount under the Fannie Mae Green Rewards and Freddie Mac Green Up and Green Up Plus loan programs will be excluded from the cap if the renovations under the program project a minimum 25 percent reduction in either annual energy or water whole property consumption. For loans funded under the Fannie Mae Green Building Certification program or the Freddie Mac Green Certified program, FHFA will exclude 50 percent of the loan amount if at least 20 percent but less than 50 percent of the unit rents are affordable by applying the income limits in Section 3 and exclude 100 percent of the loan amount if the percentage of affordable units is equal to or more than 50 percent. FHFA will require specific data elements on all transactions where energy or water efficiency improvements are made for both Enterprises to determine the effectiveness of the programs in achieving policy outcomes.

For purposes of reporting on loan and commitment activity under the 2018 Scorecard, the Enterprises must: a) use the definitions for determining unit affordability of seniors housing assisted living units, coop units, and shared living arrangements, including student housing, that are included in the August 2015 housing goals regulation; b) use affordability data as of the loan acquisition date; c) report monthly to FHFA on their acquisition and commitment volumes using a reporting format that aligns with the Scorecard categories; and d) report quarterly on their acquisition volumes under the capped category and under the affordable and underserved excluded category in a public disclosure using a reporting format to be determined by FHFA.

Appendix B: Single-Family Credit Risk Transfer Guidelines

For 2018, targeted single-family loan categories for credit risk transfer include: non-HARP, fixed-rate mortgages with terms greater than 20 years and LTV ratios above 60 percent.

These targeted loan categories do not include the following:

For loans that have prepaid as a result of a High-LTV Streamlined Refinance, the Enterprises will modify the structure of their CRT transactions to allow the newly refinanced loan to return to the reference pool in place of the loan that prepaid. This will help preserve CRT coverage on the original loan. Because High-LTV Streamlined Refinance loans will be replacing a previous loan in the reference pool, loans under this program are not separately included as a targeted loan category for purposes of this measure.

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

Date: December 22, 2017