Imagining a Mortgage Finance System that Works

March 16, 2009, 10:00am - 11:30am

The bursting of the housing bubble and the resulting foreclosure epidemic have exposed major flaws in the U.S. housing finance system. All agree that significant reforms are necessary in all areas of mortgage finance—origination, primary lending, and secondary markets for mortgage-backed securities including Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—but there is little consensus on what the system should look like when reforms are in place.

Please join the Center for American Progress for a provocative discussion about the aims and challenges of mortgage market reform.