FHA Reports Rising Serious Delinquency Rate, Declining Capital at End of 2011
March 29, 2012
The FHAs total capital resources fell slightly during the fourth quarter of 2011, even while the rate of serious delinquencies edged higher, according to a quarterly report released this week. The FHA Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund had $33.3 billion in total capital resources as of the end of December, down from $33.7 billion at the end of September. While the report does not cover the programs capital ratio a minimum level of reserves set by Congress that the program has failed to reach over the past two fiscal years its likely that the FHA may have slipped further behind. The agency...