Risk-Based Lending and Mortgage Loan Limits
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This study investigated the effects of programs dealing with risk-based pricing and increased mortgage loan limits on mortgage approval rates for low- and moderate-income households. The research performed for the study found that risk-based pricing policies did have a positive impact on the extension of residential mortgages to low- and moderate-income applicants, in that rejection rates associated with risk-based factors declined. The research performed also found that higher mortgage limit policies had a positive impact on the extension of residential mortgages to low- and moderate-income applicants, in that rejection rates associated with risk-based factors declined. Lastly, the research results indicated that higher mortgage limit policies had a greater positive impact than did risk-based pricing policies.The findings that both risk-based pricing policies and higher mortgage limit policies had positive impacts on the extension of residential mortgages to low- and moderate-income applicants caused the finding that, in the aggregate, mortgage approval rates for low- and moderate-income persons actually declined over the period of analysis to be even more unfathomable than it already was. The implication of these findings considered together is that mortgage lenders and lending agencies have resorted to other grounds for the rejection of low- and moderate-income applicants for residential mortgages. Additional research was performed to assess the comparativ
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for Low- and Moderate-Income Borrowers
The existing mortgage lending model for low- and moderate income borrowers (less than $35,000) in the United States is structured with system properties that are designed to exclude applicants rather than include applicants. For middle- to upper-income borrowers, the mortgage lending systems as it currently is structured in the United States is less exclusionary in orientation.
The existing mortgage lending system is comprised of two sets of factors. One set includes mortgage qualification criteria and related factors that tend to discourage home ownership by low- and middle-income persons. The second set includes the players in the mortgage lending industries whose policies and orientations tend to discourage home ownership by low- and middle-income persons. The effects of each of these factor sets on low- and middle-income borrowers are illustrated in figures that may be found in following pages as indicated in the following discussions.
Mortgage qualification criteria, under the existing system are summarized in Figure 1, which may be found on page 28. Under the existing mortgage lending system, credit history, income level, and employment qualifying criteria are so structured th
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