Citizens Housing & Planning Council recently convened a meeting of practitioners from the housing industry to discuss the state of the residential retail mortgage market and its impact on the housing market. The discussion was led by Dan Levitan, a founding partner of the Home Mortgage Acceptance Corp. (HMAC), currently Managing Director at The Manhattan Mortgage Company (MMC), and Lisa Ryell, Managing Director at MMC.
This brief, written by Stefanie Marazzi, William R. Ginsberg Practitioner Fellow, was adapted from a discussion led by Dan Levitan and Lisa Ryell on October 21, 2009, at CHPCs office.