DENVER — The Trump Administration is working on a plan to create a 50-year mortgage to incentivize buyers to jump into a historically slow housing market .

The plan was confirmed by the Federal Housing Finance Agency over the weekend, calling the 50-year plan a “game-changer,” as it could lower monthly mortgage payments by hundreds of dollars for buyers who say affordability is increasingly out of reach.

“Anytime we subsidize buyers, we give people who are looking for homes more buying power, and don't increase the supply of homes for sale, we run the risk of driving home prices up pretty considerably,” Berner said. “So, if this does what it says it will do, and get lots of people off the sidelines and into buying homes, then we can expect home prices to rise and a lot of those savings

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