Obama Mortgage Crisis

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 ...

Seth Colter Walls

Congressional Republicans Have No Opinion On McCain Mortgage Plan

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics


How seriously are Republican members of Congress treating John McCain's new $300 billion proposal for the government to buy up troubled mortgages? On...

Seth Colter Walls

In Debate, McCain Touted Mortgage Plan Already Proposed By Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics


It was the first question of the evening: how to turn the economy around and help those ensnared in the housing crisis. And in John McCain's first ans...

Top Obama Fundraiser Helped Run Failed Subprime Lender

WSJ | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics


For the Pritzker family of Chicago, the 2001 collapse of subprime-mortgage lender Superior Bank was an embarrassing failure in a corner of their giant...

Democrats Challenge GOP on Mortgage Mess

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.20.2008 | Home


Peter Dreier

Overlay a home foreclosures map onto a map of districts where Republicans voted "no" last week on Barney Frank's assistance bill, and you get a list of vulnerable GOP incumbents nationwide.