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

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

WASHINGTON, July 16 (Reuters) - The number of underwater U.S. homeowners refinancing through an Obama administration anti-foreclosure program has pi...

Perhaps the government's homeowner assistance program should be renamed the bank assistance program. Big banks have profited from HARP 2.0, the gov...

My crystal ball is never as crystal-clear as I'd like, but I do think that we can expect a gradual economic recovery to move the housing market a few steps back toward normal in 2012.

Fannie Mae (FNMA.OB) and Freddie Mac (FMCC.OB), the largest sources of U.S. housing finance, both said on Tuesday they would relieve lenders from ...

These are extraordinary times and extraordinary times require public and private sector utilization of extraordinary measures to solve societal issues like the housing crisis. This issue cannot be properly addressed piecemeal.

The financial services industry must take steps to meet its fair housing obligations. In the past, the industry's policies and practices have worked against fair housing achievements, promoting residential segregation.