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Article: Subprime Mortgages Didn't Necessarily Lead to More Homeowners: St. Louis Fed Analysis.
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- March 5, 2009
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ST. LOUIS, March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Proponents of subprime mortgages argued that this type of financing could encourage homeownership for people who otherwise couldn't afford to buy a house, but a recent analysis from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis suggests that the number of subprime mortgage loans terminated between 2001 and 2006 outweighed the number of estimated first-time homebuyers who sought subprime mortgages.
The analysis appears in the March/April issue of Review, the St. Louis Fed's bi-monthly journal of economic and business issues, and was conducted by Yuliya S. Demyanyk, a senior research economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. ...