House Poor: Pumped Up Prices, Rising Rates, and Mortgages on Steroids: How to Survive the Coming Housing Crisis [tag]Freddie Mac[/tag] and [tag]Fannie Mae[/tag] said they expect to buy tens of billions of dollars of newly created subprime mortgage loans over the next few years to help prop up the roughly $1.3 trillion [tag]subprime market[/tag] as lenders tighten their credit standards or flee altogether. The move shows how the two government-sponsored companies are redeeming themselves on Capitol Hill by depicting themselves as part of the solution to surging defaults on subprime mortgages, those for borrowers with weak credit records or high debt in relation to income.

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