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- <text id=90TT1583>
- <title>
- June 18, 1990: Business Notes:Mortgage Insurance
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- June 18, 1990 Child Warriors
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 67
- Business Notes
- MORTGAGE INSURANCE
- A House In Disorder
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- <body>
- <p> The alphabet soup of troubled Government loan programs has
- added three new letters: FHA. Housing Secretary Jack Kemp
- contended last week that the largest Federal Housing
- Administration fund is running out of money. The Mutual
- Mortgage Insurance Fund, which guarantees about 690,000 home
- loans each year, has suffered a high rate of defaults because
- of sloppy supervision and falling real estate values. The
- fund's net worth has plunged from $8 billion in 1979 to $2.6
- billion currently. Kemp has outlined a five-point plan to keep
- the fund solvent. His proposal would improve management and
- increase the premiums and fees homebuyers pay on FHA-insured
- loans. The unfortunate side of the tighter conditions is that
- as many as 35,000 lower-income families may not be able to
- afford the higher costs.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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