The Federal Housing Administration stepped up to guarantee low-down-payment mortgages for riskier buyers after the mortgage market crashed. Now with many of them in default, the FHA’s losses have mounted, and it’s possible that its reserves will fall below the 2 percent level required by law. If that happens, taxpayers may have to bail out FHA.
Some housing analysts believe that this will lead to tighter restrictions on FHA mortgages. "It absolutely changes the political dynamic once you have to ask taxpayers" for money, says Lisa Marquis Jackson, vice president for John Burns Real Estate Consulting.
The 10 states with the most FHA-insured mortgages are:
Texas
California
Florida
Georgia
Ohio
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Virginia
North Carolina
Source: The Wall Street Journal, Nick Timiraos (09/05/2009)
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
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