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Economic Commentary

Making Judgments About Mortgage Lending Patterns

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Studies examining whether mortgage lenders discriminate against borrowers in minority and lower-income areas have traditionally analyzed the relationship between aggregate annual mortgage lending within a neighborhood and the neighborhood’s characteristics. Regulatory-agency compliance examiners make judgments about the mortgage lending procedures adopted by individual lenders. The differences in these two methods of evaluation are not easily reconciled.

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Avery, Robert B. . 1989. “Making Judgments About Mortgage Lending Patterns.” Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Economic Commentary 12/15/1989.

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