Obama Housing Crisis

Subprime Resurfaces As Housing-Market Woe

Wall Street Journal | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business


The U.S. housing market is facing new downward pressure as holders of subprime-mortgage bonds flood the market with foreclosed homes at prices that ar...

Housing Recovery In Peril As Obama Aid Program Has Little Effect

Bloomberg News | Posted 07.30.2009 | Home


June 29 (Bloomberg) -- Driving through Riverside, California, Bruce Norris pointed to a half-dozen empty houses with "For Sale" signs stuck in untende...

Obama's Homeowners' Bailout: Is It Really Making Home Affordable?

Huffington Post | Margo Irvin | Posted 07.16.2009 | Business


The $75 billion "homeowners' bailout" may only delay the inevitable for many who currently face foreclosure.

Obama: Mortgage Help For Homeowners To Be Expanded

AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 05.29.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Tuesday it is expanding its plan to stem the housing crisis by offering mortgage lenders incentives t...

Editorial: Obama's Housing Plan "Won't Fix The Problem"

New York Times | JOHN D. GEANAKOPLOS and SUSAN P. KONIAK | Posted 04.05.2009 | Business


TO stanch the hemorrhage of foreclosures, we don't need another bailout. What we need is a fix -- and the wisdom to see what is in our own self-intere...

Preventing Foreclosure: Government Incentives For Homeowners

New York Times | EDMUND L. ANDREWS | Posted 04.05.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Wednesday began the most ambitious effort since the 1930s to help troubled homeowners, offering lenders and ...

Stimulus Signing, Foreclosure Aid On Obama Agenda This Week

AP | STEVEN R. HURST | Posted 03.18.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — Keeping the economy front and center, President Barack Obama heads west this week to sign the $787 billion stimulus bill and tackle...

Pay It Backward--The Greatest Wealth Transfer in History

Larry Gellman | Posted 12.05.2008 | Business


Larry Gellman

For the last 20 years, I've been hearing that we're in the midst of the Greatest Wealth Transfer in History. The slogan has remained the same but both the beneficiaries of the wealth have changed.

Obama: Bad Economy Could Help Me Win Florida

Washington Post | Posted 08.11.2008 | Politics


Barack Obama's two-day campaign swing through economically hard-hit areas of Central Florida and John McCain's country concert extravaganza in the Pan...

Obama Meets With US Mayors Conference, Promises Support For Home Foreclosure Bailout Bill

Miami Herald | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics


Making his pitch to a key group of power brokers, Barack Obama promised hundreds of mayors gathered in Miami that he would push back on President Bush...

Clinton: Obama "Right Of" Bush On Housing Crisis

Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Hillary Clinton's camp has released this statement, after Obama opened his trip to Texas with a critique of Hillary's housing crisis solution: "When ...