Utilizing a sample of loan originations, the distribution of the market served by the Federal Housing Administration …

This paper surveys housing finance in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Panama. The development of a secondary mortgage … Panama has not grown due to high liquidity. In Costa Rica's subsidy policy, core institutions responsible for housing policy … housing deficit is concentrated. A solution based on public budgets is not sustainable, requiring an active role of the …

In 2001, Mexico introduced a comprehensive federal housing policy package. The results have been quantitatively …

In Guatemala there are substantial and growing imbalances in the housing market; at the same time, financial markets … failures responsible for the underdevelopment of the housing finance system. The working hypothesis is that there is a … on this framework, the paper proposes guidelines for the design and implementation of housing finance policy in Guatemala. …