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How Are They Now? A Checkup on Homeowners Who Experienced Foreclosure

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The end of the Great Recession marked the beginning of the longest economic expansion in U.S. history. The Great Recession, with its dramatic housing bust, led to a wave of home foreclosures as overleveraged borrowers found themselves unable to meet their payment obligations. In early 2009, the New York Fed’s Research Group launched the Consumer Credit Panel (CCP), a foundational data set of the Center for Microeconomic Data, to monitor the financial health of Americans as the economy recovered. The CCP, which is based on anonymized credit report data from Equifax, gives us an opportunity to track individuals during the period leading to the foreclosure, observe when a flag is added to their credit report and then—years later—removed. Here, we examine the longer-term impact of a foreclosure on borrowers’ credit scores and borrowing experiences: do they return to borrowing, or shy away from credit use and homeownership after their earlier bad experience?

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  • Andrew F. Haughwout & Donggyu Lee & Daniel Mangrum & Belicia Rodriguez & Joelle Scally & Wilbert Van der Klaauw, 2024. "How Are They Now? A Checkup on Homeowners Who Experienced Foreclosure," Liberty Street Economics 20240508, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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    Consumer Credit Panel (CCP); household finance; foreclosure; housing;
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    • G5 - Financial Economics - - Household Finance

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