CBO yesterday issued a budget review on alternative ways of improving the FHA reverse mortgage program (HECMs), the bane of the FHA actuarial reports for years. We will spare you the details of the study, jumping to a major question at which CBO only suggestively hints in this report: why bother with the FHA HECM program?
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