Economics & Inequality Retirement Security Education Health Care Homeland Security Election Reform Media & Politics International Affairs TCF Project Sites: Donate to TCF Join our Listserv  Taking Note Home About TCF News Room Join our Listserv A Guide to the Housing Crisis: Ten Questions and Answers     Email    Printer-Friendly Bernard Wasow, The Century Foundation, 10/1/2008 Download the brief (PDF). View press release. As Congress tries to hammer out a $700 billion financial rescue plan, many people are still trying to understand how our financial institutions got into so much trouble in the first place, and why the government needs to take action to bail them out. In a new issue brief,“A Guide to the Housing Crisis: Ten Questions and Answers,” economist and senior fellow Bernard Wasow answers ten crucial questions about the housing crisis.  Edition: online    Copyright 2010 The Century Foundation. Privacy Policy NY Office: 41 East 70th Street—New York, New York—10021—Phone:212-535-4441—212-879-9197 DC Office: 1333 H Street, NW—10th Floor— Washington, D.C. 20005— Phone: 202-387-0400— Fax: 202-483-9430