Predatory Lending in the Housing Industry

Ethics of Predatory Lending in the Housing Industry      The real estate industry is thriving with approximately sixty-eight percent of all Americans being homeowners. With low interest rates, 1st time home buyer down payment assistance programs, and government funded educational opportunities (i.e. the Home Ownership Center of Greater Cincinnati), the real estate and mortgage lending industries will continue to flourish. However, there are some unethical lending practices

social policy. Introduction Individuals in rural areas face adversity and challenges that are different than faced in other settings. Specifically, these challenges are related to employment, transportation, access to health care, and access to housing that is energy efficient. The work of Friedman (2003) reports that while a great part of the debate on welfare reform is focused on the urban poor "nearly 20 percent of welfare recipients reside outside of central cities and metropolitan areas. They

Legislation and Predatory Lending in the Mortgage Industry The American Dream has been one of this nation's most enduring ideals of the past half-century. Presumably, every young couple, low-income family, and incoming immigrant hopes to one day produce 1.7 kids, obtain 1.3 cars, and of course purchase the house with the white picket fence. But fulfilling these goals costs money; and the aforementioned groups are among the least financially stable in the country. These people's need for

Within the past three to four years, the United States has seen the dramatic collapse of the housing market. The housing bubble spurred by ill-advised loans to individuals who could not afford a mortgage, complicated contracts which had interest rates and payments changing without reason, and the mass purchasing of bad loans by lending superpowers, had popped. The rapid increase in the value of homes across the country for the previous decade, had been a falsity, in which billions of dollars funded

Recession is considered the second worst economic crisis in American history, behind the Great Depression. The Recession of 2008 was caused by two major faults: the use of subprime lending and changes in banking culture leaning towards self interest within the banking industry. There is no doubt that subprime lending was a major cause of the Recession. It was a tactic used by investment banks in order to get more money from unsuspecting homeowners. However, lenders found out that most of the people

How to Solve the Foreclosure Crisis Since 2008 the United States has witnessed the dramatic collapse of the housing market. The housing bubble spurred by the loans that the banks gave to people, who could not afford those loans, and the interest rates on the loans, was changing each payment without reason. People started taking more loans, paying high interest, stopped saving. That affected the value of the homes. The rapid increase in the value of homes across the country for the previous decade

Greed: Its Role in Subprime Lending and the Recession of 2008 The great recession of 2008 affected everyone around the world. The great Recession is considered the second worst economic crisis in American history, behind the Great Depression. The Recession of 2008 was caused by two major faults: the use of subprime lending and changes in banking culture leaning towards self interest within the banking industry. There is no doubt that subprime lending was a major cause of the Recession. It was

of the page to review the posts. First Post There were many culprits in the subprime loan debacle in the United States starting somewhere around the middle of 2006. Gilbert (2011) state many levels of contributors participated in this mortgage lending crisis. Gilbert (2011) portends some of these included loan applicants, mortgage brokers, lenders, individual mortgage packagers, agencies that rate mortgages, investment brokers, and advisers, and purchasers of the collateralized mortgage obligations

balances sheet and issuing MBS and other complicated financial instruments to domestic and global investors the market became saturated with risk. In 2007, the housing bubble burst, the main contributor was due to the correction of the Fed Fund interest rates. When interest rates began to increase the home sales decreased, the housing price crashed- meaning that the value of the homes spiral to all time low. The mortgages on millions of homes became worth more that home itself, this cause many

economy. As one can imagine, many individuals and families are currently hurting as a result of this foreclosure crisis. High unemployment rates and lack of job creation leave very few options for already struggling homeowners. Because the housing industry composes such a large part of the American economy and affects so many Americans, it is necessary for the federal government to be directly involved in a solution to the foreclosure problem. Like the New Deal programs during the worst economic