The volume of mortgages issued this year will fall to the lowest since 2000, the Mortgage Bankers Association forecast on Oct. 17. Foreclosures doubled in September from a year earlier as subprime borrowers struggled to make payments on adjustable- rate mortgages, RealtyTrac Inc. said Oct. 11.
``We have a ways to go in the housing recession,'' Douglas Duncan, the Mortgage Bankers Association's chief economist, said last week.
Today's report corroborates earlier figures this month from the Realtors' association that the housing slump is worsening.