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30 Sep 2008, 3:05 pm
In 1999, to continue the effort to extend the possibility of home ownership for low and moderate income earners, the Federal National Mortgage Association ("Fannie Mae") and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation ("Freddie Mac") loosened their loan requirements, which gave birth to more adjustable rate mortgages, no documentation loans, lower down payments, etc. [read post]
25 Sep 2008, 2:33 pm
The obvious solution is to restore, at least temporarily and possibly permanently, the business of low-end mortgage finance, refinance, financial counseling, and mortgage securitization to those still existing agencies which made low-end mortgages possible in the first place, then handled the bulk of them for decades: I refer to the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), working in tandem with its originally government-sponsored and recently… [read post]
16 Apr 2007, 3:24 am
Fannie Mae: Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA); a federally-chartered enterprise owned by private stockholders that purchases residential mortgages and converts them into securities for sale to investors; by purchasing mortgages, Fannie Mae supplies funds that lenders may loan to potential homebuyers. [read post]
