This article entitled “Job Losses Push Safer Mortgages to Foreclosure” appeared in the NY Times on May the 25th, 2009. The authors are Peter Goodman and Jack Healy:
As job losses rise, growing numbers of American homeowners with once solid credit are falling behind on their mortgages, amplifying a wave of foreclosures.
In the latest phase of the nation’s real estate disaster, the locus of trouble has shifted from subprime loans – those extended to home buyers with troubled credit – to the far more numerous prime loans issued to those with decent financial histories. Read the full foreclosures rise on prime mortgages story.
