Howard Banker

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Howard is the Executive Director of the Fair Mortgage Collaborative and has over 35 years’ experience in affordable lending and community development. He has managed and directed single and multi-family loan: origination, insurance, aggregation and securitization programs for affordable loans and directed loan counseling programs for single family homebuyers and owner throughout the US. He has been a consultant to Ford Foundation; the US Department of Energy; the Enterprise Foundation and other national nonprofit intermediaries. He began his working life as a community organizer with the North West Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition. He has a BA in Medieval Studies from Fordham University and an MS in Urban and Regional Planning from Pratt Institute.

Housing

A Different Approach to the Recent Mortgage Settlement

January 17, 2013 | Howard Banker

A central feature of the recent $8.5 billion national mortgage settlement is a “throw up the hands and send some checks” approach as a solution to thousands and thousands of […]

Homeownership

A Home You Can’t Mortgage? No Longer. Victory for Manufactured Housing

November 9, 2012 | Howard Banker

More than seventeen million Americans live in 6.9 million manufactured homes. The vast majority of these homeowners are low and very low income (median income was $34,700 in 2008). For […]