Philiy.com - As the mortgage industry goes through a wrenching retrenchment, government-backed loans for first-time ... had fallen from 9.2 percent in 2001 to 1.8 percent in 2005, the last year detailed federal home-loan data are available. Nationally, the FHA's ...

U.S. Congress split on solution to subprime crisis
International Herald Tribune - WASHINGTON : Faced with a possible tidal wave of home ... are working on their own ideas to let the FHA insure ... The two government-sponsored companies buy billions of dollars in mortgages each year, up to a loan limit of $417,000, and package them into ...