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• Elizabeth Razzi's Local Address: A 10-Point Credit Checkup

  Can you still count on the credit you thought you had? It's a fair question for everyone in this economy, including people who pride themselves on never missing a payment. Posted Nov 22 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, U.S. Federal Reserve, A, Federal Housing Administration, Credit, Fair Isaac Corporation, Arlington, Checkup, American Express Company, Local, MasterCard Inc., 10-Point, Joe Belew, Address:, Redfin Corporation, Elizabeth, Glenn Kelman, Tom Quinn, Consumer Bankers Association, Razzi's

• Upside Down on Their Homes but on Top of Their Debts

  Think of them as the walking wounded. They are the homeowners who are upside down on their mortgages -- owing much more than their home is now worth. But they're still on their feet and still sending their payments each month. Posted Oct 25 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: on, of, but, Top, Down, Federal Housing Administration, Northern Virginia, Fairfax, Their, Homes, Upside, Martinsburg, Virginia Haizlip, Cassandra Bosley, Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Greater Atlanta Inc., Debts

• A Program to Keep the Roof Over Your Head -- but It Will Cost You in the Long Run

  For homeowners trying to renegotiate their loans under the government's new HOPE for Homeowners program, please read the paperwork carefully -- because once again, you'll be stuck with a costly mortgage deal. Posted Oct 18 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: to, In, The, A, Cost, National Public Radio Inc., Michelle Singletary, The Washington Post Company, Your, Will, Over, National Community Reinvestment Coalition, You, but, Long, It, --, Federal Housing Administration, Keep, John E. Taylor, Run, Head, Program, Roof

• Not So Jumbo

  The federal government's efforts to make "jumbo" mortgages more available to borrowers have created a three-tiered mortgage market in areas with expensive housing, including the Washington region. Posted Oct 17 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Washington, DC, Not, Freddie Mac Holdings, Fannie Mae, Federal Housing Administration, Keith Gumbinger, So, CMPS Institute, Guy Cecala, Jumbo

• 'Hope for Homeowners,' Still Long in Coming

  We interrupt this financial crisis with a word from its sponsor: the families who are losing homes to foreclosure. Posted Sep 27 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Ben Bernanke, Prince George's County, In, for, Bank of America Corporation, Long, U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, Federal Housing Administration, Still, GMAC LLC, Temple Hills, Coming, Mary Dade, 'Hope, Homeowners,', William Johnson, Dade, Molly Sheehan, Michael Gross

• Down-Payment Spigot to Shut Off

  In the past two months, most of the people who bought condominiums at the Stratford Club in Leesburg used no-money-down mortgages insured by the federal government, through a program that will be dismantled on Oct. 1. Posted Sep 26 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: to, JP Morgan Chase & Co., Gaithersburg, California, Federal Housing Administration, Off, National Association of Home Builders, Countrywide Financial Corporation, Chantilly (Virginia), Centex Corporation, Meritage Homes Corporation, Toll Brothers Inc., Madonna Lebling, Leesburg, D.R. Horton Inc., Jerry Howard, Donald Tomnitz, Shut, Scott Syphax, Down-Payment, Lucy Shackelford, Larry Breneman, Nehemiah Corp., Stuart Miller, Michael Rehaut, Cathy Smith (Executive), Spigot, Kelvin Clarke, Randi Grimsley

• Coming Up With the Cash

  Not so long ago, Qiana Parker wouldn't have had to give up her apartment or curtail her shoe-buying habit to save for a down payment on a house. Posted Aug 22 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Washington, DC, United States, Bethesda, Alexandria, Prince George's County, The, Virginia, New Jersey, George W. Bush, With, Mortgage Bankers Association, Up, Freddie Mac Holdings, Fannie Mae, Federal Housing Administration, McLean (Virginia), Arlington, National Association of Home Builders, Cash, Keith Gumbinger, Coming, Fredericksburg, MaryAnne Bryant, Central Virginia Housing Coalition, Lez Trujillo, Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development, Annette F. Simon, Shea Hollifield, Stafford, Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development

• Housing Bill Won't 'Perform Miracles'

  Even as a huge bipartisan majority in the Senate voted yesterday to send a sprawling housing bill to the White House, economists, consumer advocates and other analysts said the package of programs for struggling homeowners and shaken mortgage lenders is unlikely to relieve the foreclosure crisis ... Posted Jul 26 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Wall Street, United States, Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., Henry M. Paulson, Housing, The White House, George W. Bush, RealtyTrac Inc., Bill, Mortgage Bankers Association, John McCain, U.S. Republican Party, Barack Obama, Los Angeles Times, Jared Bernstein, Economy.com Inc., Economic Policy Institute, Freddie Mac Holdings, Fannie Mae, Christopher Dodd, U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, Barney Frank, Federal Housing Administration, National Consumer Law Center, Alys Cohen, Mark Zandi, Won't, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Steve O'Connor, Jim DeMint, Kellogg School of Management, 'Perform, Miracles', Deborah Lucas

• Huge Housing Bill Set to Become Law

  The House yesterday easily approved legislation that seeks to slow the steepest slide in house prices in a generation, rescue hundreds of thousands of homeowners at risk of foreclosure and reassure global markets that mortgage-finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will not be allowed to fail. Posted Jul 23 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Washington, DC, U.S. Federal Reserve, to, Henry M. Paulson, Housing, The White House, George W. Bush, Bill, Freddie Mac Holdings, Fannie Mae, Law, U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, Barney Frank, Federal Housing Administration, John Boehner, Dana Perino, Huge, Set, Jim DeMint, Become, Paul Ryan

• Congress Is Set to Limit Down-Payment Assistance

  Mortgage programs that helped nearly 79,000 people buy homes using government-insured loans last year would be eliminated as part of a broader housing package that Congress expects to pass this week, key lawmakers said. Posted Jul 21 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Washington, DC, to, California, Is, Arkansas, U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, Barney Frank, Federal Housing Administration, Capitol Hill, Congress, Set, U.S. Congressional Black Caucus, U.S. Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Jimmy Hicks, Al Green (Politician), Tanika Warrior, Assistance, Limit, Scott Syphax, Steven Preston, Down-Payment, Salmineo Sherman Sr.

• Senate Votes to Proceed on Housing Legislation

  A massive package of housing legislation that seeks to rescue hundreds of thousands of homeowners in danger of foreclosure while shoring up confidence in struggling mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac cleared a final procedural hurdle in the Senate yesterday and was headed for passage. Posted Jul 10 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Washington, DC, to, Housing, on, The White House, Freddie Mac Holdings, Fannie Mae, Nancy Pelosi, U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, Barney Frank, Federal Housing Administration, Senate, Johnny Isakson, Votes, John Ensign, Legislation, Wesley Denton, Proceed, U.S. Congressional Black Caucus, Jim DeMint

• Senate Housing Bill Moves Toward Passage

  A massive package of housing legislation that seeks to rescue hundreds of thousands of homeowners in danger of foreclosure while shoring up confidence in struggling mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac cleared a final procedural hurdle in the Senate yesterday and was headed for passage. Posted Jul 10 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Washington, DC, Housing, The White House, Bill, Freddie Mac Holdings, Fannie Mae, Nancy Pelosi, U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, Barney Frank, Federal Housing Administration, Senate, Johnny Isakson, John Ensign, Moves, Wesley Denton, U.S. Congressional Black Caucus, Jim DeMint, Passage, Toward

• Political Maneuvers Delay Bill After Bill in Senate

  The Senate went home yesterday for the Fourth of July holiday to face voters, having failed repeatedly to address critical economic issues from skyrocketing gas prices to climate change to the nation's housing crisis. Posted Jun 27 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: United States, In, After, The White House, George W. Bush, Medicare, Bill, Charles Schumer, Harry Reid, Iraq, U.S. Republican Party, Alabama, Afghanistan, Political, Joseph Lieberman, Freddie Mac Holdings, Fannie Mae, Federal Housing Administration, Richard Shelby, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, The Heritage Foundation, U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Senate, National Association of Home Builders, The Brookings Institution, John Warner, Delay, John Ensign, Maria Cantwell, Mitch McConnell, Jerry Howard, Maneuvers, Judd Gregg, Brian Darling, Bruce Josten, Thomas Mann

• Vital Part of Housing Bill Is Brainchild of Banks

  A key provision of the housing bill now awaiting action in the Senate -- and widely touted as offering a lifeline to distressed homeowners -- was initially suggested to Congress by lobbyists for major banks facing their own huge losses from the subprime mortgage crisis, according to congressional... Posted Jun 24 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Washington, DC, New York, Housing, Bank of America Corporation, The White House, of, Citigroup Inc., David Cho, Bill, Is, Christopher Dodd, U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, Barney Frank, Federal Housing Administration, Capitol Hill, Credit Suisse Group, Microsoft PowerPoint, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Banks, Countrywide Financial Corporation, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Dean Baker, NAACP, U.S. Congressional Budget Office, Madonna Lebling, Duncan King, Loan Corp., Brainchild, Part, Vital, Peter McKillop

• Relief Measure Passes Key Test Vote in Senate

  A plan to help thousands of troubled homeowners avoid foreclosure won overwhelming bipartisan support on a key test vote in the Senate yesterday, and supporters predicted that the measure would pass as soon as today. Posted Jun 24 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Washington, DC, In, The White House, Standard & Poor's, U.S. Republican Party, Alabama, John Kerry, Freddie Mac Holdings, Fannie Mae, Relief, Christopher Dodd, Federal Housing Administration, Key, Richard Shelby, Senate, Test, Countrywide Financial Corporation, Center for American Progress, John Cornyn, Dana Perino, Passes, Kent Conrad, Mitch McConnell, Measure, Andrew Jakabovics, Vote, Paul Kane