The housing meltdown revealed a lot of unsafe lending practices, but some advocates say the mortgage industry may be ignoring successful strategies for expanding homeownership by restricting new lending to only those with squeaky-clean credit. “The lesson of the financial crisis can’t be that homeownership is bad, or only for a small group,” said Judith Jacobson, the deputy director and general counsel for the Massachusetts Housing Partnership during a panel discussion hosted by progressive nonprofit Center for American Progress this week. Jacobson and others described programs developed in Massachusetts and North Carolina that...