"Backed by extensive study of mortgage loans made to low-income Americans over a ten-year period, argues that in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008-09, lenders need not shy away from the low-income as risks but institute equitable and sustainable homeownership policies that include...

The rise of delinquencies and foreclosures in a softening housing market calls for systematic studies of default behavior and efforts to minimize the default risks. Using a sample of residential mortgages made to low- to moderate-income borrowers, this paper empirically examines the impact of a...

In this working paper, Quercia, McCarthy, and Stegman use dataobtained on 874 low income, rural borrowers participating in the Section 502 Home Ownership program administered by the Farmer's Home Administration (FmHA), and apply two multivariate proportional hazard models in order to analyze...