New mortgage rules won't hamper housing recovery

The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau’s ability-to-repay rule, and within that its definition of a qualified mortgage, will not hamper the housing recovery. Mortgage-dependent buyers aren’t playing much of a role in the recovery for now anyway. But when they do return in greater numbers, a requirement that they are demonstrably able to repay loans will be no bad thing.

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