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Weakening Tri-Merge Would Make Housing Less Affordable

The Case Against 30-Year Mortgages The Wall Street Journal

Why cutting credit reporting costs won’t fix housing affordability, and may make it worse.

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Report: The Case Against 50-Year Mortgages

The Case Against 50-Year Mortgages

How will Washington’s housing “fix” entrench debt, inflate prices, and undermine the American Dream?

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The Wall Street Journal: The Case Against 30-Year Mortgages

The Case Against 30-Year Mortgages The Wall Street Journal

Subsidized debt drives up prices, sucks up wealth, and makes it hard for millennials to buy homes.

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The Mortgage Bankers Association’s Reply Is the Real Joke

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The Mortgage Bankers Association’s slow, self-serving defense of the 30-year mortgage proves that lifetime debt, not homeownership, is the product they’re really selling.

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