WASHINGTON — The foreclosure crisis likely will persist well into next year as high unemployment pushes more people out of homes, pulls down hou...
Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 11.06.2009 | Impact
As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. Urangoo Baatarkhuyag, a ...
The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business
As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. Representatives of the F...
Rep. John Conyers | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
It is mind-boggling to believe that with such a vast operation, banking giants like JP Morgan Chase were not the least bit aware of the wrongful subprime lending practices being undertaken.
Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business
My foray back into stores after a long, involuntary hiatus was disturbing. The parking spaces and aisles were vacant. I guess, when you lose your house to foreclosure, your closets go too.
Bruce Judson | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business
We are witnessing the unfolding of a chain of dangerous events associated with our collapsing middle class and increasingly two-tier economy.
The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. In Visalia, Calif., hundr...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 10.10.2009 | Business
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McClatchy Newspapers | Chris Adams | Posted 10.04.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON -- The federal government is engaged in a massive mortgage modification program that's on track to send billions in tax dollars to many of ...
The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 09.30.2009 | Business
As part of the Huffington Post's effort to bear witness to the effects of the current economic environment on ordinary Americans, we're rounding up so...
HuffingtonPost | Julian Hattem | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business
As part of the Huffington Post's efforts to bear witness to the effects of the current economic environment on ordinary Americans, we're rounding up s...
The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business
As the Huffington Post continues to bear witness to the effects of the current economic environment on ordinary Americans, we've found additional comp...
Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
A former client sadly related that her home is "worth less than $600,000 and we owe close to $800,000. I can't sleep. I can't eat. I can't believe what I've lost."
AP | Posted 11.14.2009 | Business
UPDATED: Check out PHOTOS of the $12 million Malibu beach home that Cheronda Guyton partied in. MALIBU, Calif. — Wells Fargo & Co. has fired a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
Twelve percent of distressed homeowners eligible for mortgage modifications under the Obama administration's signature effort to reduce foreclosures h...
Roberto G. Quercia | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business
Irrational exuberance? We think not. Market participants responding rationally to a range of short term economic incentives are the root causes of the crisis.
Michael Intriligator, Jud Ireland, and Kyle Martin | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business
As we see it, it is now time to adopt the GMAP initiative and other bottom-up economic solutions to address the recession so that we may avoid a Japanese-style "lost Decade."
washingtonpost.com | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine questioned 250 homeowners going through foreclosure in Philadelphia and found that 47...
nytimes.com | JACK HEALY | Posted 09.18.2009 | Business
Hard times are causing more homeowners to fall behind on their property taxes. But in thousands of cases, they are not responsible to their local gove...
Jerry Chautin | Posted 09.11.2009 | Business
At what point does heavy-handed government cross the line? Should homeowners suffer the consequences of their imprudent decisions to buy houses they could not afford?
AP | ALAN ZIBEL and TAMMY WEBBER | Posted 08.16.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Relentlessly rising unemployment is triggering more home foreclosures, threatening the Obama administration's efforts to end the ho...
The Huffingtonpost | Matthew Palevsky | Posted 08.06.2009 | Business
Despite efforts by the Obama Administration to stave off foreclosures by providing incentives for banks to modify mortgages for distressed homeowners,...
wsj.com | STAN LIEBOWITZ | Posted 08.03.2009 | Business
What is really behind the mushrooming rate of mortgage foreclosures since 2007? The evidence from a huge national database containing millions of indi...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.19.2009 | Eyes & Ears
Dispatches from the Displaced is a HuffPost Eyes&Ears series on the real-life effects of the housing crisis. We're collecting stories from HuffPost re...
Bertha Lewis | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics
With millions more foreclosures staring us in the face, we have to act now to create sensible local solutions that will improve our communities, safeguard families, stabilize tax bases, and revive the economy.
AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 11.19.2009 | Business