In Brief: PMI Offers Loan Program For St. Louis' Inner City

ST. LOUIS - PMI Mortgage Insurance Co., in conjunction with Fannie Mae's Community Home Buyer Program and local lenders, is working to bring homeowners back to inner-city St. Louis.

Using $500,000 in federal grants, the program subsidizes down payments and closing costs on residential properties in the city. PMI insured the first mortgages to be issued by the program.

The program uses expanded underwriting ratios for single family loans in order to qualify more borrowers.

Separately, PMI said Collateral Mortgage was approved by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to use an automated underwriting system that PMI developed. Collateral Mortgage will use the system, which is designed to predict the likelihood that loans will default, to underwrite Federal Housing Authority loans.

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