BABC 04-10: Spending financed by home equity extraction helps smooth household consumption and bolster the economy in economic downturns, but may reduce wealth…
This paper examines trends in prime-market mortgage lending to low- and moderate-income families and to families living in underserved areas, hereafter affordable lending,…
W98-7: Due to the financing mechanisms currently available, homeowners tend to have too much of their portfolios invested in their homes and institutional investors have…