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Organized Tenants Are Baaaaack
After a lull in the 1990s, the tenants rights movement reemerged and has only gained strength. What caused the resurgence and what do tenants’ prospects look like?
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Going Upstream, Bulk Note Purchase Programs Look to Keep Families in Their Homes
The latest issue of Shelterforce examines a handful of short sale and bulk note purchase programs—Second Opportunity of Arizona, the Mortgage Resolution Fund, Oregon’s Loan Refinancing Assistance Pilot Project—that are all […]
How Should AG Settlement Funds Be Used?
If money from the national mortgage settlement is not used for principal reduction, how should it be spent? We posed that question to readers last week offering a few options […]
Should FHFA’s REO-to-Rental Pilot Program Address Affordability?
Recently the National Low Income Housing Coaltion, as part of a blog series looking at discrimination in the marketing and maintenance of bank-owned properties, suggested that FHFA's REO-to-rental pilot program could […]
HAFA Changes Could Expand Short Sales that Keep Borrowers in Their Homes
Short sales are gaining traction as homeowners, real estate agents, servicers, and the GSEs have become more comfortable with the process. Servicers have even indicated that they have recently been […]
How Are the AG Settlement Funds Being Used?
Enterprise Community Partners has issued a new report on what all 50 states are doing with funds received from the national mortgage settlement. It's a comprehensive filing, but acknowledges that while some […]
It’s All FHA’s Fault!
While we're used to seeing articles that blame the homeowner for some part of the housing crisis, some of the articles that come over the transom give us pause for […]
The Partners of Neighborhood Stabilization
This post is part of an ongoing series based on the National Fair Housing Alliance report, “The Banks Are Back, Our Neighborhoods Are Not,” that examines ongoing discrimination in the […]
Interview with Ron Faris, Ocwen CEO
We speak with Ocwen CEO Ron Faris about why principal reduction makes business sense and some of the myths that get perpetuated about it.
Capital Markets & Neighborhood Stabilization: Introducing the New Issue
Mark Calabria, the director of financial services regulation at the libertarian think tank Cato Institute, said recently that while “there are disagreements over the diagnosis of the [housing] problem, there […]
The REO Pilot Program Should be an Opportunity for Fair Housing
This post is part of an ongoing series based on the National Fair Housing Alliance report, “The Banks Are Back, Our Neighborhoods Are Not,” that examines ongoing discrimination in the […]
What Can FHFA Learn from the Banks’ Big Mistakes?
This post, submitted by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, is part of an ongoing series based on the National Fair Housing Alliance report, “The Banks Are Back, Our Neighborhoods […]
From Burden to Boon: REOs Can Expand Housing Choice
This post is part of an ongoing series based on the National Fair Housing Alliance report, “The Banks Are Back, Our Neighborhoods Are Not,” that examines ongoing discrimination in the […]