Downpayment assistance has, of late, received an increasing amount of attention among US policymakers. President Biden proposed a nationwide downpayment tax credit during his…
In this paper, Benjamin Ward makes a set of recommendations intended to help policymakers design a scalable nation-wide downpayment assistance program in the United States.…
MF10-3: The recent tumult experienced by residential mortgage markets in the United States has left many struggling to determine what caused the crisis; what can be done…
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…
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…