Understanding the Boom and Bust in Nonprime Mortgage Lending
UNDERSTANDING THE BOOM AND BUST IN NONPRIME MORTGAGE LENDING Eric S. Belsky and Nela Richardson September 2010 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors1 wish to acknowledge the following individuals for their help in researching this paper: Daniel McCue, Dawn Patric, Gary Fauth, Meg Nipson, Kevin Park, Polina Dekhtiar, Angela Flynn, and Jordan Roberts. The authors specially thank William C. Apgar and Daniel McCue for their advice and for their work on this project and Ellen Seidman and Barry Zigas for their helpful comments. Lastly, the authors wish to thank Frank DeGiovanni and George C. McCarthy of the Ford Foundation for their support and keen insights into the operation of mortgage markets. The following members of an Advisory Committee for this report were instrumental in its development: Frank Alexander, Emory Law School Konrad Alt, Promontory Financial Group William Apgar, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Sheila Bair, FDIC Michael Barr, University of Michigan Law School Raphael Bostic, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Sandy Braunstein, Federal Reserve Board Steve Brobeck, Consumer Federation of America Glenn Canner, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Karl Case, Wellesley College Martin Eakes, Center for Responsible Lending Keith Ernst, Center for Responsible Lending Ren Essene, Federal Reserve Board Allen Fishbein, Federal Reserve Board Sanjeev Handa, TIAA-CREFF Colleen Hernandez, Homeownership Preservation Foundation 1 Nela Richardson presently works at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The views presented here are the authors’ own and do not represent the views of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, its Commissioners or staff. Prue Larocca, RBS Securities, Inc. Bill Longbrake, Housing Policy Roundtable George McCarthy, FORD Foundation Patricia McCoy, University of Connecticut School of Law George P.
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