
The Obama Administration has gone to extraordinary measures to try and prop up the US housing market and the US economy. Time and money are short these days, and the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency Edward Demarco has virtually eliminated the possibility of passing the buck to the taxpayer.
This spells doom and gloom for a Presidential Administration that has, since 2008, poured billions of dollars into a beleaguered economy and housing industry. Federal housing programs designed to help troubled borrowers amend their current mortgages have only caused banks to drag their feet. In effect, there seems to be no systemic approach that can effectively restructure the US housing market and meet the demands of all the players involved-regulators, banks, borrowers, and taxpayers.