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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>
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BUSINESS, Page 67
Business Notes
MORTGAGE INSURANCE
A House In Disorder
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<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.
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</body>
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