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The United States Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (commonly referred to as HERA) was designed primarily to address the subprime mortgage crisis.It authorized the Federal Housing Administration to guarantee up to $300 billion in new 30-year fixed rate mortgages for subprime borrowers if lenders wrote down principal loan balances to 90 percent of current appraisal value.
The government assumed control of the bank's £50 billion mortgage and loan portfolio, while its deposit and branch network were sold to Spain's Banco Santander. [17] In October 2008, the Australian government made A$4 billion available to nonbank lenders unable to issue new loans.
Government housing policies guaranteed home mortgages and/or promoting low or no down payment have been criticized by economist Henry Hazlitt as "inevitably" meaning "more bad loans than otherwise", wasting taxpayer money, " leading to "an oversupply of houses" bidding up[ the cost of housing. In "the long run, they do not increase national ...
The real problem, experts argued, is a lack of more government stimulus — for both renters and landlords, who depend on rent payments to cover their mortgages.
The U.S House passed a bill in early April, 2008 that would offer government insurance on $300 billion (~$417 billion in 2023) in new mortgages to refinance loans for an estimated 500,000 borrowers facing foreclosure and an additional 15 billion to affected states to buy and fix foreclosed homes. [8]
By the end of all three rounds of stimulus, the U.S. government had provided over $850 billion in direct payments to taxpayers. The first round, the CARES Act, distributed $292 billion in payments ...
TARP allowed the United States Department of the Treasury to purchase or insure up to $700 billion of "troubled assets," defined as "(A) residential or commercial obligations will be bought, or other instruments that are based on or related to such mortgages, that in each case was originated or issued on or before March 14, 2008, the purchase of which the Secretary determines promotes ...
Mortgage debt and non-mortgage credit card debt rates also grew. Domestic nonfinancial business debt and federal government debt grew. ... As the stimulus checks and government assistance stopped ...