For the next several weeks, HuffPost will be cross-posting "Foreclosure Horror Stories" from the Home Defenders League's "100 Stories Of What Wall Str...

For the next several weeks, HuffPost will be cross-posting "Foreclosure Horror Stories" from the Home Defenders League's "100 Stories Of What Wall Str...

Throughout the campaign, both candidates were short on specifics about their housing policy, to put it very kindly. But what the candidates didn't do or say helps draw out the differences between what housing policy will look like during Obama's second term.

NEW YORK -- If elected president, Mitt Romney would reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, sell 200,000 vacant foreclosed homes owned by the government an...

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.

In 2009, Bank of America threw a lifeline to Sylvia Ficco, a struggling New Jersey homeowner who'd recently defaulted on a $591,000 home loan. Come jo...

A homeowner in Minneapolis who teamed up with her Occupy Our Homes activist son has succeeded in winning a loan modification from CitiMortgage. Col...

Edward DeMarco isn't ready to blink yet on principal reductions, even though doing so could save Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac $1.7 billion. On Tuesd...

Here's how Pamela Flores tells it: A couple years ago, she found that she couldn't keep making mortgage payments on her Atlanta house. She says she...

The robo-signing settlement is the latest -- and potentially the largest -- piece in the U.S. housing policy puzzle. Even though it's partly punishment for banks' wrongdoing, it is also another answer by the government to the question of how it can help the housing market.

As part of the $25 billion mortgage fraud settlement announced Thursday, five of the biggest U.S. banks promised to end practices that have led to bot...

Fannie Mae executives are refusing to forgive part of homeowners' mortgage debt because they are "philosophically opposed" to the idea, according to a...

In an attempt to clean up its battered image, Bank of America allegedly provided mortgage assistance to customers willing to drop complaints about the...

Through the 2MP initiative, services of second mortgages have the option to modify the lien or to extinguish it -- which is an admission that the mortgagor is not likely to be repaid for the second mortgage, and they clear their interest in the property by filing a lien waiver.

In an ironic twist, a building bearing the name of a bank closely associated with the foreclosure crisis may soon be facing foreclosure itself. Ba...

WASHINGTON (Aruna Viswanatha) - Shirley Burnell, a community activist from Oakland, California, has been trying to get her subprime loan restructu...

California and Nevada's attorneys general announced Tuesday in a press conference that they are teaming up to prosecute mortgage fraud in their respec...

Just one day after government authorities announced they would be bringing the hammer down on loan-modification scammers, three people have been arres...

With the economy losing momentum and the housing market sagging, there has been no shortage of scammers looking to take advantage of struggling homeow...