Good news: those who bought homes in 2009 and later have become one of the most successful groups of homeowners. Mortgage default rates have been exceptionally low.
Bad news: the loan approval process has become so strict since 2009 that only super-high credit score individuals are able to obtain mortgages. A good chunk of middle-class borrowers have therefore been shut out of the market.
Is there any hard factual evidence to show that lending standards are just way too tight? Well, the Federal Reserve’s white paper, released last week, explicitly emphasized the need to ‘remove some of the obstacles preventing creditworthy borrowers from accessing mortgage credit’ in order to upgrade the economic growth prospects.
As for the data, consider the following...
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