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How did we get into this foreclosure mess?


I live with three partitioning of crises, even though I missed during the Great Depression, that the year 1933 was the country before 1000 Rechtsausschließungen per day. In the 1980’s, the problem is, saving and credit scandals in the late 1990’s, the scourge known as the “mirror” was responsible. The current crisis is due in large part to the explosion of Subprime mortgages.

We hear every day of the crisis, but what has been lacking is a satisfactory explanation, as we are in chaos.

In 1934, Congress has been the Federal Housing Administration mortgage insurer. More than three-quarters of a century, of the FHA, 34 million insured mortgage loans and contribute to this fuel an increase in the national rate of ownership of 40 per cent in 1934 to just under 70% today .

Until seven years ago, Baltimore was a city very FHA, the Agency for 42% control of the town market, compared with 30 percent in Germany. Many of those who are bought FHA-insured loans are to remember, like any FHA loan was manually Department of Housing and Urban Development’s office of the Mercantile Bank & Trust Building at the magnifying glass to be ready in FHA officers.

There were very few of the fraud and abuse in this system.

Another reason the system works well, the fact that the majority of the funds in Baltimore for municipalities are organized for immigrants - mostly from Eastern Europe - who knew each other, lived in the same neighborhood and went to the church. The old country of the extension of credit “Club” was real estate and savings and loan for the opening of the residential property, credit programs in America.

East Baltimore institutions such as St. Casimir’s S & L and S & L Czech were at the head of this movement, and there was a communal kitchen aspect of the process. The municipality would come together for a new married couple, buy a house - but if the couple were as much a month behind in their mortgage payment, they would have to hear his name by the priest on Sundays.

The degree of confidence in those days was high, and it was the norm. Many of these lenders are, and they never lowered its standards, but they have a lot to a small portion of total lending picture.

Given that the substance, as we have at this happen? How America’s willingness to allow the industry to undermine one of the most successful in the United States in order to strengthen the efforts of agriculture and neighborhoods homebuyers?

The decline began when the FHA experienced massive layoffs in the early 1980’s, the federal budget, a reduction in housing programs hit more than any other programs. The granting of a mortgage banking industry and lobbying Congress for legislation to enable the lender to approve customers for FHA-insured loans. This led to a large number of new donors credit - not all of them maintained.

Another big change came in 1994, the Congress, again, under pressure from lenders, lenders can choose their own experts. Until then, the FHA, the evaluators chosen for each of the loans.

These changes opened the door to abuse by a new generation of donors, and the results were predictable. The number of FHA lenders in Baltimore has increased from 58 in 1994 to 107 in 1998, and the number of FHA loans rose from 2153 to the 3821st Licensing in loans from a loan was how professional monitors “very indulgent”. The annual number of Rechtsausschließungen in Baltimore has risen from 1900 in 1996 to over 5000 by 1999. In April 1999, the LRA declared a three-month moratorium on its Rechtsausschließungen in Baltimore, for a deeper look on 500 borrowers who have just lost their homes.

With regard to the Agency is that in the elderly Rechtsausschließungen cities such as Baltimore, a serious problem for people in their homes and losing the neighborhood where Rechtsausschließungen summer. Committed as a result of the FHA “Neighborhood Watch” to monitor the programs and auditors, lenders credit appeared to be, a disproportionate number of Rechtsausschließungen.

This movement is futile, because in 2001, the FTA has much of the operation in Baltimore. Its share of the loan market has declined from 42 percent in 1998 to less than 3 percent in 2002, replaced by a large number of new products ready untested: setting rate mortgages at low interest rates, attacks in recent years, interest on loans, and In what has been known as “liars” loans where the borrower not declare their income and employment status.

The borrower to sign contracts with mortgage brokers and real estate companies. However, the parties are great, in the current crisis, the ones who misled, covering their own pockets and filling ignored the obligation of good faith and fair dealing, by implication, in each contract.

The result of all this that Baltimore housing market in a certain sense, it is collapsed. There are signs that the LRA made a comeback. From 1 January at 18 March of the agency approved 70 new lenders in Maryland to offer FHA-insured loans.

Hopefully, the FTA and the granting of credit community is drawn lessons from the past, and is once again a system on the basis of trust, fairness and commitments, which culminated recently, Baltimore, Maryland, and the whole nation in its history.



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