WASHINGTON - The last time the housing market was this bad, Congress set up the Federal Housing Administration to insure Depression-era mortgages that lenders wouldn't otherwise make.By: Dina ElBoghdady|Date: Mar 8, 2009

DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. -- Janet Laitis leaned on a chain-link fence in her front yard, dragged on a cigarette, and pointed to the houses on her block that lenders have seized in just the past two weeks.By: Dina ElBoghdady|Date: Apr 2, 2007

...Some of these folks will end up in foreclosure. Dina ElBoghdady of The Washington Post says the Office of Thrift Supervision...loans that cover the current value of their homes," ElBoghdady writes. "The refinancing would pay part of what...

...some of Taliban (By Helene Cooper and Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times) FHA mortgage defaults soaring (By Dina ElBoghdady, Washington Post) Recession corrals wild horse sanctuary plan (By Lyndsey Layton, The Washington Post) ...