Is the current mortgage crisis affecting you?

For many people, buying a home became affordable when mortgage companies began offering "subprime" loans. But there was a catch - after a few years, the interest rates jumped... and now many people can't afford the higher payments and are losing their homes.

If you have insight into today's mortgage crisis - whether as a borrower, a lender, or through another connection to the housing industry - please share your experience with Marketplace, a public radio business and finance program with more than 8 million listeners nation wide. Your knowledge will help our reporters cover the story better.

Respond here: http://americanpublicmedia.org/pin/mortgage

Subprime lending expanded the group of people able to buy a home, especially for Hispanic and Latino households. But now the mortgage crisis is affecting Hispanic and Latino homeownership, personal finances, neighborhoods, and jobs. Marketplace needs your help to understand the impact of the mortgage crisis on you or your community.

If you or someone you know received, marketed or was involved in a subprime loan to finance a home, please tell us about it.

Respond here: http://americanpublicmedia.org/pin/mortgage

Thank you,

Joellen Easton
Analyst, Public Insight Journalism
American Public Media