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US Housing Financing Has Changed Drastically Since 2008

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Rupert Hargreaves
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US Housing Financing Has Changed Drastically Since 2008

Many areas of the US housing market have changed dramatically since the housing crisis but the starkest changes are in the financing market. Home mortgage financing and trading has completely changed since 2008. Most notable is the drastic decline in debt in the private-label securitization market while the agency mortgage-backed securities market has continued to grow. This trend, as well as other US housing finance developments are explored in the Housing Finance Policy Center’s November 2016 monthly chartbook.

US Housing Financing Has Changed Drastically Since 2008

According to the Federal Reserve's Flow of Funds report, the value of the US housing Market market has been on the rise since...

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