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Housing and the Mortgage Securities Markets: Review, Outlook, and Policy Recommendations

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During the 1980s, strong demographic demand for housing created a bulging need for mortgage credit. The mortgage market has creatively accommodated this need through extensive securitization of residential mortgages. This process greatly facilitated the financing of housing demand. During this decade, however, the scheme of funding long-term mortgages with short-term deposits bankrupted savings institutions. A gigantic federal bailout for thrifts was finally required. In the 1990s, the weakening demographics and the resulting reduction in the demand for mortgage credit afford the federal government opportunities to reformulate its housing policies in terms of limiting federal insurance on consumer deposits, phasing out income tax deductibility of mortgage interest, and ensuring capital adequacy at federally sponsored credit agencies. Copyright 1992 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

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  • Hu, Joseph, 1992. "Housing and the Mortgage Securities Markets: Review, Outlook, and Policy Recommendations," The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Springer, vol. 5(2), pages 167-179, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:jrefec:v:5:y:1992:i:2:p:167-79
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