Foreclosure Deal May Help States Prop Up Budgets, Raze Homes
Foreclosure Deal May Help States Prop Up Budgets, Raze Homes
By Mark Niquette and Tim Jones, Bloomberg Businessweek, February 13, 2012
Wisconsin plans to use part of its $140 million share of the national foreclosure settlement to fill a budget hole. Missouri would devote $40 million for education. Ohio wants to tear down vacant homes.
With settlment finished, Coakley turns to Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae
By State House News Service, The Boston Herald, February 12, 2012
The ink is not yet dry on a $25 billion national foreclosure settlement with five major banks, but Attorney General Martha Coakley has already trained her sights on two more targets.
Mortgage Relief for Service Members
By John H. Cushman Jr., The New York Times, February 12, 2012
Members of the military services who lost their homes in unfair foreclosures have won a big victory – and will receive big payouts — in the comprehensive settlement of mortgage litigation that was reached last week.
Colorado tweak would make counties do more to get foreclosure profits to ex-homeowner
By David Migoya, The Denver Post, February 12, 2012
Profits from county foreclosure auctions will end up with the former home owners who lost the property and not in county coffers as often happens now, under a legislative amendment expected to be introduced this week.
Housing slump hurdle in US Federal Reserve's efforts
By Bloomberg, The Economic Times, February 13, 2012
WASHINGTON: US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the central bank's efforts to spur economic growth are being blunted by impediments to mortgage lending, and he called for further steps to heal the housing market.