Rohit Chopra is director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). This article is adapted and edited from a speech delivered yesterday at the National Housing Conference in Washington, DC. While we often focus on homeownership as a vehicle for accumulating...
Fifteen years ago, in mid-September, Lehman Brothers collapsed and the financial system crashed. Troubles in the U.S. mortgage market infected the entire globe, and American families and businesses lost trillions of dollars and experienced an incalculable level of...
