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...

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...

He name-checked Big Bird, but didn't once mention foreclosures. In an hour-and-a-half debate on an economy still shell-shocked by the housing cris...

The housing market remains in poor health, with more than 15 million homeowners owing more on their mortgages than their property is worth. As policym...

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...

Fannie Mae has paid $1.5 billion to a dozen banks that manage its massive home loan portfolio so that it can hire companies it thinks will do a better...

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

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.

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

The Federal Housing Finance Agency declined the federal government's proposal for principal reduction on underwater mortgages chronically behind on payment -- it said principal reduction does not prevent foreclosures while saving taxpayers money.

It's starting to look like Neil Barofsky and Timothy Geithner are never going to get along. In a Monday column for Reuters, Barofsky, the former sp...

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

Principal reduction has been a sticky enough topic for Ed DeMarco. It just got even stickier. The director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency an...

* Borrower protection laws hold back recovery, some economists say * Housing slump worse in states with judicial prote...

Financial problems consistently rank among the top stressors for military families. Mortgage problems at home can weigh heavily on those serving abroad and even affect mission readiness.

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...

Not so long ago, the term "bleeding heart liberal," had currency in American politics as a way to accuse someone of costly naïveté. These days we need a new term to describe a strain of politics that has become dominant in many areas of concern, from the foreclosure crisis to long-term unemployment: We are living through what may be called the age of "bleeding cash conservatism."