The federal Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD) required that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac buy high-risk loans in the name of “affordability,” thus saddling the mortgage industry with hundreds of thousands of now-defaulted loans, says the Washington Post. Click here to read the article.
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HUD’S Part in the Mortgage Crisis
Posted by mortgageforensics on June 9, 2008
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