The CFPB’s ability-to-repay rule with its qualified mortgage standard has not dampened mortgage credit availability – market dynamics did that before the rule kicked in, according to a new analysis from the Urban Institute’s Housing Finance Policy Center. “The second anniversary of the QM rule is an appropriate occasion to evaluate the rule’s impact on credit availability,” Research Associate Bing Bai, Director Laurie Goodman and Senior Fellow Ellen Seidman wrote in a brief published late last month. The data they reviewed suggest that the impact of QM has been small: mortgages with interest-only features and prepayment penalties were virtually extinct before QM took effect; the adjustable-rate mortgage share of the market still tracks interest rate changes; and the share of loans ...
The creation of a U.S. sovereign wealth fund could grease the skids for an end to the conservatorships of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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