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Federal Housing Administration In The New Millennium, Anthony Pennington-Cross, Anthony Yezer
Federal Housing Administration In The New Millennium, Anthony Pennington-Cross, Anthony Yezer
Anthony Pennington-Cross
The first challenge in attempting to predict the future of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is to understand why it is still here. No other depression-era mortgage-market institution has survived without substantial modification. We conclude that its survival has depended on its ability to invent new purposes for itself. For example, it changed from a replacement for failed private mortgage insurance using economic soundness as an insurance criterion to an innovator in high-risk lending based on an acceptable risk criterion. FHA has developed special programs to serve the needs of specific groups. We believe this pattern of change in purposes …