Home Foreclosure

Homeowners Facing Foreclosure Can't Find Lawyers

Posted 10.13.2009 | Impact


WASHINGTON -- The nation's foreclosure crisis has swamped lawyers for the poor, leaving thousands of low-income homeowners across the country without ...

Detroit: Banks Responsible For Maintenance Of Foreclosed Homes

The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 10.06.2009 | 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...

Dispatches from the Displaced: Los Angeles Couple Blogs Their Foreclosure

Huffington Post | Margo Irvin | Posted 07.04.2009 | Business


Are you facing foreclosure, or have you already lost your home? Share a story of how the housing crisis has affected you by emailing submissions+forec...

Bankruptcy Relief for Homeowners at Risk of Foreclosure

Joe Keefe | Posted 05.27.2009 | Politics


Joe Keefe

A strong housing bill is essential if economic recovery is to proceed. The Senate needs to resist ever more short-term thinking from the banking industry, and embrace court-supervised workouts.

The Evictor: This Sheriff Doesn't Ride A White Horse

Jerry Waxman | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics


Jerry Waxman

In 2001, Lieutenant Corriveau's office handled less than 1,000 eviction orders, by 2008 that number had increased to 10,243.

Dispatches From The Displaced: A Short Sale Realtor Sheds Light On The Housing Crisis

Katie Saddlemire | Posted 06.18.2009 | Business


Are you facing foreclosure, or have you already lost your home? Share a story of how the housing crisis has affected you by emailing submissions+forec...

Dispatches From The Displaced: Inability to Negotiate with Bank Leaves Homeowner $11,000 Behind Payment

Katie Saddlemire | Posted 06.18.2009 | Business


Are you facing foreclosure, or have you already lost your home? Share a story of how the housing crisis has affected you by emailing submissions+forec...

Dispatches From The Displaced: Mortgage Company Instructions Put Couple In Foreclosure

Katie Saddlemire | Posted 06.18.2009 | Business


Are you facing foreclosure, or have you already lost your home? Share a story of how the housing crisis has affected you by emailing ...

Ryan Grim

Florida Judge Orders Lenders To Work With Homeowners; Bailed-Out Banks On Board

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...

Dispatches From The Displaced: Retiree Loses $1 Million By Helping Tenants

Huffington Post | Matthew Palevsky | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics


Are you facing foreclosure, or have you already lost your home? Share a story of how the housing crisis has affected you by emailing submissions+forec...

Dispatches From The Displaced: Unpaid Katrina Worker Loses Farm

Katie Saddlemire | Posted 06.18.2009 | Business


Are you facing foreclosure, or have you already lost your home? Share a story of how the housing crisis has affected you by emailing submissions+forec...

Dispatches From The Displaced: Increased Interest Renders Couple Unable to Make Payments

Katie Saddlemire | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics


Are you facing foreclosure, or have you already lost your home? Share a story of how the housing crisis has affected you by emailing submissions+forec...

Photos Of The Foreclosed: Bobcats, Protesters And Roseanne, Oh My!

Matthew Palevsky | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics


The story of America's housing crisis often ends up being told in a stream of numbers -- hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt, thousands of forecl...

Dispatches From The Displaced: Housing Crisis Is Healthcare Crisis For Many

The Huffington Post | Matthew Palevsky | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics


This is our third installment of Dispatches from the Displaced, in which just one of the 10,000 people who lose the their house each weekday shares hi...

ACORN Launches Home Defenders Campaign To Fight Foreclosures

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 (...

Arthur Delaney

One Home Saved As Hundreds Revolt Against Foreclosure

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics


Additional reporting by Jerry Waxman Avery Salkey bought her brand new four-bedroom home in Palm Beach County for $234,550 in 2003. After making a ...

Your Voices: Obama's Speech Just Miles From Home Of HuffPost Reader Facing Foreclosure

Matthew Palevsky | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics


With 10,000 Americans going into foreclosure everyday, the housing crisis has produced millions of heartbreaking stories across the country. Earlier t...

Foreclosure Moratorium: Its time has come?

Mark Winston Griffith | Posted 12.22.2008 | Business


Mark Winston Griffith

This entry is cross-posted on the DMI blog There used to be time when the idea of a national moratorium on foreclosures was largely seen as an imprac...

How Spreading the Wealth Rescued a Mother Thanks to CODEPINK and ANP

Linda Milazzo | Posted 11.20.2008 | Media


Linda Milazzo

Who is Jocelyne Voltaire, and why is her story more relevant to America's current crisis than that of plumber Joe?

Honey, What Rhymes With Home Foreclosure?

John Lundberg | Posted 11.12.2008 | Living


John Lundberg

This past Thursday was National Poetry Day in the UK, and many British media outlets got into the spirit by asking readers (or viewers) to submit poem...

Former Southtown Newsman Faces Foreclosure

SouthtownStar | Phil Kadner | Posted 10.26.2008 | Chicago


Ken Masson could be a poster boy for the nation's home foreclosure crisis. Or the health insurance crisis. Or the credit card crisis. Or the unempl...

How I Solved My Mortgage Crisis

Rick Siegel | Posted 10.25.2008 | Home


Rick Siegel

In the end my bank chose to make some money instead of demanding all the money and ending up with a loser. The country might benefit if somebody, even somebody called a regulator, went in and made every bank offer a similar solution to their customers, devaluing the profit of the loan instead of the value of the house.