Download or read book The Color of Credit written by Stephen L. Ross and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002-11-08 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of current findings on mortgage-lending discrimination and suggestions for new procedures to improve its detection. In 2000, homeownership in the United States stood at an all-time high of 67.4 percent, but the homeownership rate was more than 50 percent higher for non-Hispanic whites than for blacks or Hispanics. Homeownership is the most common method for wealth accumulation and is viewed as critical for access to the most desirable communities and most comprehensive public services. Homeownership and mortgage lending are linked, of course, as the vast majority of home purchases are made with the help of a mortgage loan. Barriers to obtaining a mortgage represent obstacles to attaining the American dream of owning one's own home. These barriers take on added urgency when they are related to race or ethnicity. In this book Stephen Ross and John Yinger discuss what has been learned about mortgage-lending discrimination in recent years. They re-analyze existing loan-approval and loan-performance data and devise new tests for detecting discrimination in contemporary mortgage markets. They provide an in-depth review of the 1996 Boston Fed Study and its critics, along with new evidence that the minority-white loan-approval disparities in the Boston data represent discrimination, not variation in underwriting standards that can be justified on business grounds. Their analysis also reveals several major weaknesses in the current fair-lending enforcement system, namely, that it entirely overlooks one of the two main types of discrimination (disparate impact), misses many cases of the other main type (disparate treatment), and insulates some discriminating lenders from investigation. Ross and Yinger devise new procedures to overcome these weaknesses and show how the procedures can also be applied to discrimination in loan-pricing and credit-scoring.
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the US Mortgage and Credit Markets written by James Barth and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-06-22 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mortgage meltdown: what went wrong and how do we fix it? Owning a home can bestow a sense of security and independence. But today, in a cruel twist, many Americans now regard their homes as a source of worry and dashed expectations. How did everything go haywire? And what can we do about it now? In The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Mortgage and Credit Markets, renowned finance expert James Barth offers a comprehensive examination of the mortgage meltdown. Together with a team of economists at the Milken Institute, he explores the shock waves that have rippled through the entire financial sector and the real economy. Deploying an incredibly detailed and extensive set of data, the book offers in-depth analysis of the mortgage meltdown and the resulting worldwide financial crisis. This authoritative volume explores what went wrong in every critical area, including securitization, loan origination practices, regulation and supervision, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, leverage and accounting practices, and of course, the rating agencies. The authors explain the steps the government has taken to address the crisis thus far, arguing that we have yet to address the larger issues. Offers a comprehensive examination of the mortgage market meltdown and its reverberations throughout the financial sector and the real economy Explores several important issues that policymakers must address in any future reshaping of financial market regulations Addresses how we can begin to move forward and prevent similar crises from shaking the foundations of our financial system The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Mortgage and Credit Markets analyzes the factors that should drive reform and explores the issues that policymakers must confront in any future reshaping of financial market regulations.
Download or read book The Impact of the Mortgage Credit Directive in Europe written by Miriam Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has European Private Law responded to the property and mortgage markets crisis? And in what way is this reaction likely to model domestic systems? The financial and economic crisis that marked the beginning of the century has had a devastating effect on the property and mortgage markets in many Member States of the European Union. Despite this, the European legislator took its time to respond. This book analyzes the impact of the Mortgage Credit Directive (Directive 2014/17) in twelve different jurisdictions: Belgium, England, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Malta, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, and Spain. The reports show how in some instances only certain products (such as foreign currency loans) or practices (irresponsible lending, homeownership promoting policies, the use of unfair terms) were factors that triggered the property crash; in other cases; the system completely failed to address an exceptional situation; and, finally, how in some instances prudent lending explained why the market was virtually not hit at all. This book aims to find out whether the two goals of Directive 2014/17 (financial sector stability and enhanced consumer protection) can be achieved in light of its provisions and of the transposition carried out by the different Member States, and whether the changes it introduces have a significant impact in the jurisdictions considered here. Some systems are already showing signs of yet another property bubble. There is room for hope: perhaps we have learned from the past, perhaps the Directive is a step forward, but more importantly this book shows that we can learn from each other. [Subject: European Law, Private Law, Property Law]
Download or read book Borrowing to Live written by Nicolas P. Retsinas and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Brookings Institution Press and Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies publication Americans are awash in debt, and the U.S. economy is in trouble. Credit undergirds daily life more than ever—it has become one of the defining aspects of American life, and the ramifications are becoming clearer by the day. The already considerable damage from a depressed housing market has been exacerbated by the subprime lender implosion, sending shock waves through the financial sector, international economies, and government at all levels. Most low- or moderate-income people borrow, but that should not be construed as uniformly poor judgment or lack of disciplines—Americans are not borrowing merely to keep up with the Joneses, but too often simply to stay afloat. In Borrowing to Live, the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University brings together a group of experts drawn from the best of academia, research, and public services. Together with editors Nicolas Retsinas and Eric Belsky, they dissect the worrisome current state of consumer and mortgage credit in the United States and help point the way out of the current struggles. Contributors: Michael S. Barr, Eric S. Belsky, Raphael W. Bostic, Shawn Cole, Amy Crews Cutts, Kathleen C. Engel, Ren S. Essene, Elaine Kempson, Patricia A. McCoy, William A. Merrill, Sendhil Mullainathan, Anthony Pennington-Cross, Elizabeth Renuart, Eldar Shafir, Edna R. Sawady, Jennifer Tescher, John Thompson, Peter Tufano, Susan M. Wachter
Download or read book Mortgage Credit Analysis for Mortgage Insurance on One to Four family Properties written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Study of Mortgage Credit written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Study of Mortgage Credit written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of The Voluntary Home Mortgage Credit Program written by United States. National Voluntary Mortgage Credit Extension Committee and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moving Forward written by Nicolas Paul Retsinas and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial experts explore what caused the financial crisis and discuss new research and ideas about the future of credit markets, including how improvements might be shaped by industry leaders. Original.
Download or read book A Study of Mortgage Credit written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Housing and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mortgage Credit written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews 1966 mortgage credit shortage and tight money supply and considers recommendations for strengthening Federal programs to ease credit and provide institutional support for lower mortgage rates.
Download or read book Study of Mortgage Credit written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Housing and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study of Mortgage Credit Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs 1967 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Banking and Currency Committee and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Home Mortgage Credit Terms written by Hughes H. Spurlock and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Secondary Mortgage Market and Mortgage Credit written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book VHMCP written by United States. Housing and Home Finance Agency and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farm mortgage Credit Facilities in the United States written by Donald Clare Horton and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is intended to serve a principal purpose of providing a compact summary and analysis of factual material on farm-mortgage credit heretofore available only in scattered sources. At the same time it is intended to orient the major current problems and public issues in the farm-mortgage credit field.
