The Administration’s housing policies are still not adequately addressing the fact that housing supply is too high and that demand is too low. The new details of the plan to sell REOs to investors to rent out suggest the scheme might not be as effective in reducing excess supply as first thought. Meanwhile, raising the mortgage fees charged by the FHA will, at the margin, reduce demand rather than boost it.
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