The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) has helped support access to affordable housing since becoming part of the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD) in 1965. In 2010 the FHA and HUD took protecting market liquidity a step further and implemented the Single-Family Loan Sale (SFLS) Initiative, a program that allows the FHA to accept assignment of distressed, FHA-insured loans from servicers and sell the mortgages as nonperforming loans on behalf of HUD.