mitria wilson | americans underwater
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Americans Underwater: Principal Reduction in Policy and Practice
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Putting the Issue in Context
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Americans Underwater: Principal Reduction as Policy
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Americans Underwater: Principal Reduction as Policy
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Americans Underwater: Principal Reduction as Policy
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Americans Underwater: Principal Reduction as Policy
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Americans Underwater: Principal Reduction as Policy
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Principal Reduction as Policy
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Americans Underwater: Principal Reduction as Policy
Taxpayer Bailout of Reckless Borrowers? “It is absolutely egregious [to] ask people in Tennessee who played by the rules to bail out reckless borrowers in other parts of the country.”
- U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-TN)
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NCRC 2012 Policy Agenda:
Fact or Fiction?Is Principal Reduction A
Taxpayer Bailout of Reckless Borrowers?
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Americans Underwater: Principal Reduction as Policy
A Bailout By Another Name? “What the proponents of principal reductions at Fannie and Freddie don’t talk about is what a transfer of wealth from taxpayers (again) to large banks such a program would represent.”
- NY Times Journalist Gretchen Morgenson, March 25, 2012
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NCRC 2012 Policy Agenda:
Fact or Fiction?Is Principal Reduction Another Bank Bailout?
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Americans Underwater: Principal Reduction as Policy
Forgiving Mortgage Principal Invites Greater Risks?
“Helping people who are behind on their mortgages would ease the foreclosure crisis….Even so, it is a misguided idea….Edward DeMarco, acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency… points out that it would reward bad behavior. DeMarco foresees a strong chance that some people who are current on their payments would stop paying to qualify for the government’s generosity.”
- USA Today Editorial Board, April 15, 2012
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NCRC 2012 Policy Agenda:
Fact or Fiction?Is Moral Hazard a Valid Defense to Fannie and
Freddie Offering Principal Reduction?
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Principal Reduction in Practice
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NCRC 2012 Policy Agenda
Questions?