August 21, 2011 - LAURA SULLIVAN, host: We're back with ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Laura Sullivan.
SULLIVAN: Say you own a house in St. Paul, Minnesota. It cost you $172,000, that's the median sales price of a single family home in the U.S. right now. You're able to make your monthly payments, but like many Americans, just barely. This is your little slice of the American dream.
Now let's say someone tells you they're going raise your interest rate, and they're going to cut the value of your house, and they're going to take away the tax deduction that you get for mortgage interest. And what if that person tried to tell you that all of that would ac
