Kevin Williamson sees signs of another dangerous housing bubble. He offers the evidence in his latest National Review Online column.
In lieu of the usual complex regulation larded with special-interest favoritism, here is a simple mortgage rule that could and probably should be adopted: No federally regulated financial institution shall make a mortgage loan without the borrower’s making a down payment of at least 20 percent derived from his own savings.
Period, paragraph, next subject.
Instead of doing that, we are sprinting flat-out in the opposite direction, with government-sponsored mortgage giant Fannie Mae rolling out a daft new mortgage proposal that would allow borrowers without enough income to qualify for a mortgage to count income that isn’t theirs on their mortgage application.
The Committee to Re-Inflate the Bubble strikes again: We’ve just legalized mortgage fraud.
