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FHA Eases Rules On Blemished Credit (Demo)

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Some borrowers who defaulted on previous mortgages can now get a new FHA loan after one year instead of three. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)

On September 4, 2013, E. Scott Reckard writes in the Los Angeles Times that to qualify for the break, FHA borrowers must show that their foreclosure or bankruptcy was caused by external economic factors.

The Federal Housing Administration wants to make it easier for people who have defaulted on their mortgages to get a new home loan with FHA backing.

But there’s a catch. To qualify for the break, borrowers must show that their foreclosure or bankruptcy was caused by external economic factors, reducing their income by 20% or more for six months. And no, you can’t have quit your job or have been fired for cause.

Those who can demonstrate such a pay cut, job loss or decline in business income now must spend only one year making timely rent and credit-card payments before they can apply to buy a home with an FHA-insured loan, a recent FHA bulletin explained. In addition, they must obtain housing counseling from an agency approved by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Borrowers generally are not eligible for a new FHA loan until three years after a foreclosure or two years after a bankruptcy. Previously, the death of a spouse or a medical emergency had been exceptions that could cut the wait to a year; now loss of income is listed as an extenuating circumstance as well.

It’s one of the few signs that the FHA’s low-down-payment mortgages, traditionally an option for first-time and lower-income borrowers, might be getting easier to obtain.

Otherwise, the agency, its reserves depleted by mass defaults, has been tightening its credit standards and raising the premiums it charges to insure mortgages. It also recently changed its rules so borrowers must pay annual premiums on FHA mortgage insurance for at least 11 years if they want its backing for a home loan.

We need to apply the proven principles of insurance to the financing of FUTURE wealth-creating, income-generating productive capital assets. We need to empower individuals to acquire multiple company diversification ownership facilitated with private capital credit insurance or a government reinsurance agency (ala the Federal Housing Administration concept). The promissory note can be offset to the government’s central Federal Reserve Bank in return for the cash equivalent of the amount of the loan, less an administrative fee. The only cost to the direct lending bank in making a loan to the corporation would be the administrative fee, or about 2 percent of the loan’s principal and then another 2 percent for capital credit insurance, with an additional quarter of a percent paid to the Federal Reserve Bank to monetize the loan and give the lender the same cash as it would have had if it had actually loaned money to the corporation. The lender’s cash loaned to the company’s Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) trust and/or the individual Capital Homestead Account or “CHA” (a super-IRA or asset tax-shelter for citizens) is replenished with the Federal Reserve Bank cash. When the company pays the ESOP trust or CHA enough money to enable the trust(s) to repay the lender, the lender has to retrieve the note and pay back the Federal Reserve Bank. Thus, the loan cost would be essentially not more than 5 percent to allow ownership broadening financial capital to be in­vested in ownership broadening ESOP and CHA trusts to create new capitalists. Thus, national capital credit insurance replaces the requirement for pledging past savings and security (which for the most part the most Americans do not have).
See “Financing Economic Growth With ‘FUTURE SAVINGS’: Solutions To Protect America From Economic Decline” at NationOfChange.org http://www.nationofchange.org/financing-future-economic-growth-future-savings-solutions-protect-america-economic-decline-137450624

http://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/la-fi-fha-mortgages-20130905,0,6032854.story

 

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