Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• HOUSING EXPENSES TO INCOME RATIO - A percentage ratio that is determined by taking the amount of your m...
  
  
• HOUSING EXPENSES-TO-INCOME RATIO - The ratio, expressed as a percentage, which results when a borrower'...
  
  
• HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY - State body whose function is to provide loans to citizens who cannot obtain ho...
  
  
• HOUSING FINANCIAL DISCRIMINATION ACT OF 1977 (HOLDEN ACT) - The Act prohibits financial institutions (b...
  
  
• HOUSING INVESTMENT - The amount invested in a house, equal to the sale price less the loan amount.
  
  
• HOUSING PERMIT - a certificate issued by a local government authorizing residential construction. It de...
  
  
• HOUSING RATIO - The ratio of the monthly housing paymentin total (PITI - Principal, Interest, Taxes, an...
  
  
• HOUSING START - the commencement of construction of a new housing unit. For multiple dwelling structure...
  
  
• HOUSING STARTS - An economic indicator, the number of dwelling units (including apartments) on which co...
  
  
• HOUSING STOCK - the total number of residential units, including mobile homes, available for nontransie...