Home Repos Crisis Shoots Bureaucrat Into Prominence

Posted on June 16, 2008
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Home Repos crisis has shot bureaucrat into prominence. The person in the centre of attention is Brian D. Montgomery who is a commissioner of FHA. For months phone calls are ringing from White House officials, lawmakers and television news personnel. They are all scrambling for few minutes with him. This ruddy Texan who has so far remained behind obscure files of bureaucracy jokingly remarks that many think today that he is running the Federal Housing Administration!

Starting from Bush all the Democrats leaders are depending on the FHA to shoot the silver bullet that will put an end to foreclosure related problems. For a long time he has been a Busy loyalist. When he joined, Montgomery had little experience about housing. Soon he shot into prominence for being an influential official whose steady and quiet efforts was invigorating and modernizing a moribund stagnant agency. This won for him the respect of both Democrats and Republicans.

51 year old Montgomery likes to keep a low profile and comments “I didn’t take the job to be in the spotlight; I’ve been passionate about this.” The Congress is thinking making vast changes in the role of the FHA. This is making many wonder whether Montgomery would live up to the expectations. The foreclosure crisis has taken on Himalayan proportions.

Democrat Senator Patty Murray who is the chairperson of the housing subcommittee, is all praise for him saying that Montgomery takes his job seriously but does not play with politics. But the concern for FHA and its future role in tackling the foreclosure problem remains.

Bush expects the FHA to help the borrowers by changing the floating loans into stable mortgages that are stable and backed by government. By the end of this year the plan known is FHA Secure will be able to reach out to 500,000 families for refinancing. This will be treble the number the FHA has tackled in the fiscal year 2007. At the same time Congress is trying to pass legislations that will allow an extra 500,000 house owners who are foreclosure victims to refinance over a period of five years.

FHA insures the mortgages for many who are buying houses for the first time, for minorities and low-income seekers of loan. FHA does not directly advance loans but operates mortgage insurance through private houses that deal in lending. The critics opine that FHA does not have the infrastructure to handle such a deluge of increased work.

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