2013-09-12ml-implode.com

``It was last April, right after the release of President Obama's 2014 budget, when Assistant Housing Secretary Carol Galante was quoted as saying...

"The President's budget projects that FHA may need a $943 million credit from the U.S. Treasury in October to make certain sufficient reserves are on hand today to cover projected losses over the next 30-years. This is not a certainty and FHA is taking every appropriate action to reduce the likelihood that such assistance is needed."

So, what's going on here? Why is the Federal Housing Administration ("FHA") projected to lose so much money on its insuring of reverse mortgages?

The overall answer is simple... it's just another outcome of the severe decline in U.S. home values, which began during the summer of 2006. You see, one of the key benefits of HUD's Home Equity Conversion Mortgage ("HECM"), is that they are "non-recourse" loans.''



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