Marsha Courchane, Leonard Kiefer, Peter Zorn
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November 12, 2013
HBTL-11: Responses to the mortgage market crisis of the past decade led to myriad changes in the structure of the industry, expanded market regulations, and resulted in…
Stephanie Moulton, Roberto Quercia
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October 26, 2013
HBTL-10: State Housing Finance Agencies (HFAs) entered the homeownership policy scene in the early 1970s through the sale of tax-exempt mortgage revenue bonds, which…
UCC08-2: In The End of Poverty, Jeffrey Sachs describes the poor as “… ready to act, both individually and collectively … hard working … [and having] a very…
Roberto Quercia, Spencer Cowan, Ana Moreno
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February 18, 2004
BABC 04-18: In this paper, we examine the cost-effectiveness of community-based foreclosure prevention interventions using two proxy measures: time to resolution and the…
Susan Wharton Gates, Cindy Waldron, Peter Zorn
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February 13, 2004
BABC 04-13: Automated underwriting (AU) systems have become a tool of choice in mortgage lending decisions. While AU provides significant benefits to mortgage…
Ellen Seidman, Jennifer Tescher
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February 4, 2004
BABC 04-4: The paper argues that five factors have contributed to narrowing the gap between supply and demand: technological advances that lower costs and expand…
This paper analyses the performance of low-income and minority loans (LIMLs) from a large sample of fixed-rate mortgages purchased by Freddie Mac in the 1990s. Our focus is…
Roberto Quercia, Michael Stegman, Walter Davis, Eric Stein
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October 1, 2001
The 1977 Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) was enacted to encourage banking institutions to meet the credit needs of their entire communities. In response, lenders have…