In 2006, Ms. Bair, a 57-year-old Kansas native, was appointed by George W. Bush to run the F.D.I.C. and was one of the first government regulators to warn of the impending housing crisis.
The sense of an impending housing crisis grew stronger last week with FEMA's announcement on Wednesday that it would close all the trailer camps it runs for victims of the 2005 hurricanes on varying schedules by the end of May.
His supporters seem to prefer him on offense, displaying his callous, me-first aggression the quality that, last night, made him nonchalantly admit to, and then justify, paying no federal income taxes, and to interject "That's called business" when Clinton pointed out that, in 2006, he'd rooted for the impending housing crisis.
The cruel irony is that Greenspan deserves a lot of the blame for the impending housing debacle, yet Bernanke will take the heat.
Maytag's stock jumped 40%, peaking at $47 per share last May, but it and other appliance stocks have steadily declined since midyear 2002 amid concerns about an impending housing slowdown and war worries.
The result, according to a report to be published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, a social-policy think-tank, on March 19th, is that there is an "impending crisis" of housing in the south-east.Not everybody agrees that the failure to build the number of houses that the planners say is needed will lead to social melt-down.
With the impending cuts to housing, schools, and community organizations from the sequestration, vulnerable communities are in danger of falling apart.
To Nancy Eldredge, who edits the University Park Temblor, a local newsletter, the impending loss of the house represents further homogenization of the neighborhood, where the number of original houses is shrinking steadily each year, fetching from $800,000 to $2 million for the land.
"In 2004, what we had talked about was an impending crisis in affordable housing.
The misstatements and omissions described in the F.H.F.A.'s complaints relate to how the mortgages were likely to perform during the impending collapse in the housing market.
