HOUSING CRISIS UPDATE: FHA cash reserves will fall below minimum. “The Federal Housing Administration has been hit so hard by the mortgage crisis that for the first time, the agency’s cash reserves will drop below the minimum level set by Congress, FHA officials said. . . . ‘It’s very serious,” FHA Commissioner David H. Stevens said in an interview. ‘There’s nothing more serious that we’re addressing right now, outside the housing crisis in general, than this issue.'”