{"id":16161,"date":"2012-08-16T08:33:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T15:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=16161"},"modified":"2012-08-16T08:33:56","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T15:33:56","slug":"priceless-our-home-ownership-strategy-will-not-cost-the-taxpayers-one-extra-cent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/16161\/priceless-our-home-ownership-strategy-will-not-cost-the-taxpayers-one-extra-cent\/","title":{"rendered":"Priceless: “Our home ownership strategy will not cost the taxpayers one extra cent.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The American Enterprise Institute on the premeditated assault on the prime mortgage:<\/a><\/p>\n

When it comes to a government centered society and its deleterious consequences, our Government Mortgage Complex is the undisputed poster child. There has been no greater economic failure than the collapse of the housing market due to decades of government intervention and crony capitalism.<\/p>\n

Voters need to be reminded about how this disaster came about. It began with the premeditated assault on high-quality, credit-worthy prime mortgages. The perpetrators were Fannie Mae, community groups, and Congress, each of which had the means, motive and opportunity for undertaking this assault.<\/p>\n

As early as 1991, community activist Gale Cincotta, was laying the path for undertaking such an assault in her testimony before the Senate Banking Committee. “Lenders will respond to the most conservative standards unless [Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac] are aggressive and convincing in their efforts to expand historically narrow underwriting,” she stressed.<\/p>\n

Using Fannie and Freddie as the means to expand underwriting standards caused an immediate problem for existing subprime lenders and insurers. In 1992, about 14% of new mortgages had impaired or subprime credit with a FICO credit score below 660. Virtually all these borrowers were already served by private subprime lenders or those using FHA insurance. As Fannie and Freddie expanded into subprime, something had to give-subprime lenders would have to abandon the field or move further out the risk curve. They chose the latter, with the result that both prime and subprime lending got into much more risky loans.<\/p>\n

The motives of Fannie, community groups, and Congress were clear. Fannie wished to protect its valuable federal charter by using trillions of dollars in flexible loans to woo and capture its regulator: Congress. Community groups like ACORN relied on flexible lending to create multiple revenue streams from banks, lenders, Fannie and Freddie, HUD, and others, since they made money from counseling homebuyers, assisting in loan originations, and counseling defaulting borrowers. Members of Congress viewed the many trillions of dollars in flexible lending announced by Fannie and Freddie as a superior form of pork to help them get reelected. It was off-budget, costless, and Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The American Enterprise Institute on the premeditated assault on the prime mortgage: When it comes to a government centered society and its deleterious consequences, our Government Mortgage Complex is the undisputed poster child. There has been no greater economic failure than the collapse of the housing market due to decades of government intervention and crony […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29,26,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-group-therapy","7":"category-lending","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1460,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1460\/extreme-transparency-in-lending\/","url_meta":{"origin":16161,"position":0},"title":"Extreme Transparency in Lending","author":"Brian Brady","date":"May 22, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Mortgage brokers have been under assault by the extreme transparency advocates these last few years. 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