NJ’s COAH: Finding Common (and Vacant) Ground
As New Jersey’s Council on Affordable Housing, or COAH, continues to defend its plan to use a growth-share model to encourage towns to build working class and affordable housing, we’re […]
ACORN’s Home Defenders
Should have posted this sooner, but here’s interesting news from ACORN=22533&tx_ttnews[backPid]=12387&cHash=933307a56f ACORN members in 16 kicked off the “Home Staying Campaign the week of February 23. These cities include San […]
Blog-Heavy, Link-Heavy, (and Some) Breaking News
It’s now a regular exercise where we report the demise of another respected, long-standing, print media outfit and while news that the Hearst Corporation-owned The Seattle Post-Intelligencer will likely to […]
New Regulations for Loan Modification and Refinance
According to the Treasury, as many as six million families are expected to face foreclosure in the next several years, with millions more struggling to stay current on their payments, […]
Finally Touching That Third Rail?
Rail travel is romanticized so much in our nation’s culture — be it in song, film, or political theater — that it’s easy to forget that we forgot about it […]
Making a Profit on the Shards of a Glass Bubble
You’ve got to give the money-makers credit: when their giant, festering wound of an enterprise was pried open, cleansed with salt and rubbing alcohol, what did they do? They invested […]
“Ethical Lenders” Employ a Tried and True Method: Long-term, Fixed-rate Loans
This report from ABC News focuses on Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago, a nonprofit and part of a growing list of organizations that embrace the identity of “ethical lender,” working […]
Who’s Going to Report the News?
Rooflines has been watching a disturbing decline in the newspaper industry as print media is falling victim to fewer subscribers, falling numbers in advertising, and increased competition from the Internet […]
Rethinking Home Mortgage Deductions
Harvard economics Professor Edward Glaeser, in The New York Times this week, asks us to rethink the home mortgage deduction in the tax code, and it certainly sounds like a […]
Does Obama’s Plan Go Far Enough?
Barack Obama’s announcement this week outlining $75 billion in direct funding to help homeowners stay in their homes, and up to $200 billion designed to allow for the government-controlled mortgage […]
Obama’s Foreclosure Plan: Just the Facts
The Obama administration announced February 18 its Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan that aims to offer assistance to as many as 9 million homeowners making a “good-faith effort to stay […]
Task Force Calls for $4 Billion in NSP Funding
Editor’s Note: The following is from the National Foreclosure Prevention and Neighborhood Stabilization Task Force. See the bottom of the page for a list of task force members. In 2008, […]