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...them into the market, the FHA insured a full 49% of their mortgages. In October, Congress renewed a higher limit on the size of FHA loans (now up to $729,750), first put in place last year, to allow the agency to expand into pricier markets. "The government may need to inject billions of dollars into the FHA, but the alternative - another perturbation in the housing market, more foreclosure aid, more bank bailouts - could have cost dramatically more," says housing economist Thomas Lawler...
...scenarios - including one that assumes house prices continue to slide and unemployment hits 12.5%. Only in the most dire, and unlikely, of such simulations does the FHA run out of money to cover its losses, which is why FHA commissioner David Stevens has repeatedly said the agency will not need to ask Congress for money...
Former Fannie Mae executive Ed Pinto, who has testified before Congress on the state of the FHA, is not so certain. He holds that there are a number of other variables that could materially change the amount that the FHA will need to pay out in claims. For instance: how much money the agency can recoup from foreclosed properties, the growing social acceptability of borrowers' walking away from their houses and the chances that the riskiest loans in the market are finding their way to the FHA since it requires only a 3.5% down payment. Comparing FHA loans with...
...Sometimes it falters, and unfortunately Mercedes still gets the worst of it. (You’ll find her something to “dip in chocolate,” Will? Really? But even in this scene, Finn’s reaction shot shows the creators are aware they may need a net.) Ultimately, it’s an act that is wobbling less after this week...
...only criticism of this episode is how Becky is introduced, and as usual, we feel a need to gripe about how fast some plots occur on this show. We meet her; then two scenes later she’s a plot point...