BOSTON -- The White House, long bedeviled by shortcomings in its housing programs, received two boosts Wednesday when its pick to lead a key housing a...

BOSTON -- President Barack Obama will nominate Mel Watt, a longtime Democratic congressman from North Carolina, to oversee government-controlled mortg...

By Douwe Miedema WASHINGTON, April 13 (Reuters) - Mark Zandi, a well-known economist, is a front-runner to lead the U.S. housing regul...

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the federal agency that oversees them all are failing in their responsibility to protect homeowners from abusive bank prac...

NEW YORK -- For more than five years, many homeowners who complained about mortgage industry foreclosure abuses have wondered whether anyone with a fi...

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has run out of patience with the nation's top housing official. On Monday, after more than a year sp...

President Barack Obama secured reelection while managing to talk around one area of economic policy in which experts frequently charge him with failur...

When the Federal Reserve vowed last week to buy up $40 billion worth of home loans each month for the indefinite future, the hope was to finally stimu...

Homeowners need help avoiding foreclosures, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac need reform, and complex rules need to be replaced with smart ones. This, wi...

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- This old railroad town in the heart of the Southern California foreclosure belt doesn't attract many visitors these days, es...

This guy, Edward DeMarco, the acting head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, is deliberately damaging America -- promoting foreclosures, high unemployment and excessive taxes. He has got to go.

A band of progressive leaders joined the mounting calls to fire America's housing policy chief Ed DeMarco Thursday. "You could have the biggest st...

Edward DeMarco has opened up a new front on his war against principal reduction. On Thursday, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which DeMarco ov...

Have a solution to the housing crisis? A California county that touched off a fierce debate over whether local governments should condemn underwater m...

The time has long since arrived for Edward J. DeMarco to pursue his other opportunities in the private sector, whatever they may be. DeMarco, you may...

Five years into a housing crisis that never seems to end, a dispute over offering homeowners assistance has come down to morality. Edward DeMarco, ...

Acting Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Ed DeMarco has not been shy about letting underwater homeowners sink. This week, he made it painfully clear that despite the Administration calling for principal reduction, he would have no part of it.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac failed to keep tabs on thousands of contractors hired to manage more than 1 million foreclosed homes, possibly exposing the...

The Federal Housing Finance Agency is well on its way to a remarkable achievement: proving less popular, among housing groups, than even the banks who...

The rest of the country is inching forward on tangible progress, but Edward DeMarco could do more than anyone. The need is as urgent now as it ever was.