William Browning's Plan

Refinance at 6% for 30 years

Grosfield Plan

Very Complicated involving Treasury buying existing mortgages and reissuing affordable mortgages

American Homeowner Preservation Plan

A sale and lease-back plan with right of purchase

American Enterpise Institute Plan

Renegotiate Mortgages by 20%

Chris Hubbard and Mayer Plan

Stabilize House Prices

Save the Banks first.

Joe Nocera's January 23, 2009 column in the New York Times

Joe Nocera Discusses Several Plans in the NYT

Joe Nocera's Nov 1, 2008 Column

Plans discussed in this column include those by:

• Daniel Alpert Refinance


• William Hambrecht SAM


• Thomas Peterffy Subsidy


• James Grosfield (See separate item)
  


• American Homeowner Preservation (See separate item)
  


• William Frey


• Sheila Bair, FDIC

Nocera's blog (http://executivesuite.blogs.nytimes.com/) discusses several of these plans. Just search on the name.

Andrew Caplin's SAM page at New York University

Shared Appreciation Mortgages

Michael Lissak's Proposal

Create a Mortgage Refinancing Service at Fannie/Freddie

A Different Kind of Bailout

My Cambridge Chronicle Op-Ed that focuses on Helping Homeowners

It really suggested Government Shared Appreciation Mortgages (SAMs)