Santa Cruz Sentinel - More home buyers will qualify for mortgages under new lender guidelines as these indexes trend down. Long term, I think this is what ... Our association called for this months ago, modernization of the FHA government-backed loan program. Homes in ...

House Votes to Aid Struggling Homeowners
Chicago Tribune - The size of mortgages the agency can insure is often too small to attract borrowers in expensive areas such as California and the Northeast -- reducing the FHA'S share of the home-loan market to around 4 percent from 19 percent a decade ago. ...