In a move that’s pitting grassroots housing activists against Wall Street interests, the City Council of Brockton, Mass., decided this week to commi...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Ask Vice Mayor Angelique Ashby what pushed her to this point -- the point at which she is openly considering using city authorit...

The decrease in economic freedom experienced thus far doesn't mean that the U.S. is about to turn into a poor third world country. But it does imply low or stagnant growth that slows our improvement in living standards.

* Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom sends letter to Holder, Geithner, Bernanke * Eminent domain considered as step in restructuring mortgages...

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

San Bernardino and other counties are drowning in debt from a crisis created when Wall Street's real estate securitization bubble burst. By using eminent domain, they can clean up the destruction of their land title records and 400 years of real property law.

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- Representatives from the mortgage finance industry flocked to this sun-baked county east of Los Angeles on Thursday to warn ...

John Cusack, the actor famous for roles in "Say Anything..." and "High Fidelity," joined Arianna Huffington on HuffPostLive Monday to discuss an innov...

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

How much human misery and suffering will it take before we finally come together as citizens and incorporate a higher moral ethic into the pursuit of profit once and for all?

In a sign of desperate times, some California city officials may be using some drastic measures to help the glut of struggling borrowers. In Cali...

* Mortgage firm is pushing private-funded emiment domain * Mortgage Resolution Partners targets underwater mortgages ...