A ban on foreclosure sales and evictions from houses owned by mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which began as a high-profile effort just be...
Tony Campolo | Posted 04.25.2009 | Living
Some are reluctant to grant grace to those desperate home-buyers who were seduced into lavish living they could ill afford.
AP | Posted 04.18.2009 | Green
PERRIS, Calif. — A town is going green to combat foreclosure blight: A contractor has been hired to spray-paint lawn bald spots. Perris spokesma...
Associated Press | Posted 04.12.2009 | Chicago
The number of Illinois households threatened with losing their homes rose 62% percent in February from last year's levels, more than twice the nationa...
AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 04.12.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Despite halts on new foreclosures by several major lenders, the number of households threatened with losing their homes rose 30 per...
David Fiderer | Posted 04.09.2009 | Business
Many talking heads lack a command of the data, so much coverage of the financial crisis remains vague and anecdotal. For businessmen, the narrative is always framed by the numbers, the bottom line.
Medill Reports | Malia Spencer | Posted 04.06.2009 | Chicago
From her Bronzeville branch office on South King Drive, Michelle Collins strives to solve the community's foreclosure problem one loan at a time. Col...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics
While we are trying to move the economy to full capacity, we also need to make sure that our communities are operating at full capacity. Our full capacity of giving. Our full capacity of service. Our full capacity of compassion. As America's Misery Index soars, so must our Empathy Index.
Phillip Martin | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics
Rick Santelli's self-righteous outburst directed at down-on-their-luck foreclosed home buyers amounts to what the late sociologist William Ryan termed "blaming the victim."
AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — House Democrats, under pressure from a group of moderates in their ranks and the banking lobby, agreed Tuesday to narrow legislatio...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics
A chief judge for the ninth circuit in Orange County, Florida -- an epicenter of the foreclosure crisis -- ruled Wednesday that mortgage providers mus...
Gabriel Beltrone & Matthew Palevsky | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics
This piece on the foreclosure crisis was produced as part of HuffPost's citizen journalism initiative. Reporting by Lauren Cannon, Leia Ford, Richard ...
Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics
This story was reported and written by Leia Ford. She is one of the HuffPost citizen journalists helping cover the on the ground effects of the forecl...
Lauren Cannon | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics
This story was reported and written by Lauren Cannon. She is one of the HuffPost citizen journalists helping cover the on the ground effects of the fo...
Sarah Newman | Posted 03.26.2009 | Green
Tear up your front lawn and plant a garden. In the long-term, it will be a lot cheaper than shopping at the supermarket. And you can share your harvest with your community.
Stuart Whatley | Posted 03.23.2009 | Politics
Yesterday marked the launch of ACORN's Home Defenders Campaign, which seeks to use civil disobedience techniques, complemented by mass communication (...
Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 03.22.2009 | Business
By offering short-term loans, the government would be using taxpayer money wisely to stimulate banks to reform their lending practices.
Bertha Lewis | Posted 03.20.2009 | Politics
Our foreclosure campaign will continue until the crisis has passed. We will continue to work to save individual families who are caught up in the mess through the ACORN Home Defenders.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.12.2009 | Business
"The banks are too big to fail" has been the mantra we've been hearing since September. But when you consider the millions of American homeowners facing foreclosure, aren't they also too big to fail?
Tram Nguyen | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics
An immediate moratorium on foreclosures is necessary to keep families in their homes while a systemic solution is developed. Taxpayer money must go toward helping communities.
Grant Cardone | Posted 03.19.2009 | Living
Neither the world nor your survival will come to an end regardless of what happens economically. Can it get worse? Certainly. Will your lifestyle change? Yes, but so will most everyone else's!
AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 03.16.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — The biggest players in the mortgage industry are halting home foreclosures while the Obama administration develops its plan to help...
AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 03.15.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — The number of Americans on the verge of losing their homes fell in January but was still up from the same month a year ago. The num...
AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 03.02.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Mortgage finance company Freddie Mac said it will allow some borrowers to rent out their homes after losing them to foreclosure. T...
Mark Winston Griffith | Posted 03.02.2009 | Business
Obama's calling Wall Street bonuses "shameful" and citing Wall Street's actions as the "height of irresponsibility" may signal a significant shift in the government's tone towards corporate culture.
Washington Independent | Posted 05.03.2009 | Politics