FHA at 80: Preparing For The Future

This issue brief lays out FHA’s mission in the single-family mortgage market and presents its historical role in meeting immediate and emerging challenges over its history. The paper draws from “The FHA Single-Family Insurance Program: Performing a Needed Role in the Housing Finance Market,” a 2012 research paper by Edward Szymanoski, William Reeder, Padmasini Raman, and John Comeau.