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FHAs Cash Reserves Will Drop Below Requirement

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posted on Sep, 18 2009 @ 07:40 PM
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I've heard on the radio that government agencies now own 90% of all mortgages. Of course they're going to be in trouble. Anything the government runs gets into trouble because they don't let failing entities die.

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Housing Agency's Cash Reserves Will Drop Below Requirement

By Dina ElBoghdady
Washington Post Staff Writer

Friday, September 18, 2009

The Federal Housing Administration has been hit so hard by the mortgage crisis that for the first time, the agency's cash reserves will drop below the minimum level set by Congress, FHA officials said.

The FHA guaranteed about a quarter of all U.S. home loans made this year, and the reserves are meant as a financial cushion to ensure that the agency can cover unexpected losses.

"It's very serious," FHA Commissioner David H. Stevens said in an interview. "There's nothing more serious that we're addressing right now, outside the housing crisis in general, than this issue."

Until now, government officials have warned that the agency could be forced to ask Congress for billions of dollars in emergency aid or charge borrowers more for taking out FHA-insured loans if the reserves fell below the required level, equal to 2 percent of all loans guaranteed by the agency.

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[edit on 18-9-2009 by Dbriefed]



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