Cuckner is a s bag but story is a nothingburger. It wasn’t $800 million of Fannie and Freddie debt that was underwritten with the same guidelines Fannie and Freddie use for the hundreds of billions of multifamily lending it does every year.
Calling it “government backed debt” is misleading, it’s the same type of “government backed” debt that all multifamily landlords have access to.
I personally think the government doesn’t need to be in the business of financing multifamily properties at al, but Cuckner didn’t get any kind of special treatment.