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Article: Open Forum: The Home Owners' Loan Corp.
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- National Mortgage News
- Article date:
- February 4, 2008
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Mr. Pollocks recent financial services outlook paper, Crisis Intervention in Housing Finance, on the Home Owners Loan Corp. is presented as our Open Forum. First of two parts.
The Home Owners Loan Corp., little known or remembered now, has an instructive history, beginning in 1933 during a housing and mortgage finance collapse of a severity unimaginable today. The HOLC was a very large government intervention designed to reduce the burden on borrowers while increasing the liquidity of mortgages the same goals being pursued in current policy debates but the HOLC was also designed to be temporary and as self-supporting as possible. It grew in the mid-1930s to ...