With home prices rising, interest rates falling and builders building, some prominent housing advocates are calling for a new kind of loan for buyers with lower incomes or bad credit.
They’d like to call it the Dignity Mortgage, but it has another name — one that’s become more of an epithet since the housing crash: subprime.
Applicants might include people caught in the early stages of the mortgage meltdown who have since rebuilt their finances, said Faith Bautista, who heads the National Asian American Coalition.
Housing advocates want a new ‘subprime mortgage’
Most Popular Articles
Latest Articles
Rocket delivers $291M profit amid improved margins and MSR acquisitions
The Detroit-based lender reported a GAAP net income of $291 million from January to March, its highest profit level in two years.