Tag Archives: Paper edited by Sheila Bair focuses on fixing housing

The nation’s housing market is improving, but remains constricted by uncertainties related to repurchase liabilities and longer foreclosure timelines in some of the nation’s hardest-hit states, researchers with Boston Consulting Group said in a report commissioned by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Pew is where former Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. leader Sheila Bair went after leaving the FDIC a few years after the housing market meltdown. In a paper titled, “Strategies to Improve the Housing Market”, the consulting group concludes the various foreclosure processes used by different states are now causing […]