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Breaking Up Is Harder to Do After Housing Fall (12/30/08)

Class Alleges Foreclosure Rescue Scam (12/29/08)

Household incomes on the decline in Monroe County (12/28/08)

American Nightmare (12/28/08)

Spiraling Mortgages Could Become Morphed (12/28/08)

Struggle to Fight Foreclosure, Save Homes (12/27/08)

First Niagara says it wants to buy, not be bought (12/24/08, posted 12/30/08)

Mortgage Applications Soar as Rates Fall (12/2/408, posted 12/30/08)

FTC Probing Insurers Over Credit-based Homeowners Insurance Pricing (12/23/08, posted 12/30/08)

Insurers Balk at FTC Order for Consumer Data in Credit Score Probe (12/23/08, posted 12/30/08)

Help for Homeowners (12/21/08, posted 12/30/08)

Canandaigua bank to acquire Greentree (12/23/08)

In a Reborn Corner of Long Island, Blight Comes Creeping Back (12/23/08)

M&T to Acquire Provident Bankshares (12/22/08)

Obama Forms White House Task Force on Working Families (12/21/08)

More Singles Taking Advantage of Declining Market (12/21/08)

Business that helped those in foreclosure files for Chapter 11 (12/19/08, posted 12/23/08)

Walking Away from Mortgage not Unthinkable (12/18/08, posted 12/23/08)

IRS: Distressed Homeowners Can Work Around Federal Tax Liens (12/18/08, posted 12/23/08)

The Top 5 Housing-Market Hopes for 2009 (12/18/08, posted 12/23/08)

Responsible Homeownership: Protecting Homeowners Today, Guiding Policymakers Tomorrow (posted 12/23/08)

Tax Break May Have Helped Cause Housing Bubble (12/19/08)

RENT REGS REFORM GATHERS SUPPORT (12/15/08, posted 12/19/08)

New credit card rules have unacceptable delay (12/18/08) Agency press release.

Community Reinvestment and the Foreclosure Crisis (12/18/08)

Confronting Concentrated Poverty in Tough Economic Times (12/18/08)

HUD Chief Calls Aid on Mortgages A Failure (12/17/08)

Financial institutions must meet higher standard (12/17/08)

NJ Lawmakers Pass Sweeping Foreclosure Changes (12/17/08)

Access to Safe Credit (12/15/08)

Fannie Mae to End Tenant Evictions in Foreclosures (12/15/08)

Fitch: Alt-A Mortgages Deteriorating More Rapidly than Expected (12/15/08)

A Champion of Wall Street Reaps Benefits (12/14/08)

A Second Mortgage Disaster On The Horizon? (12/14/08)

Barney Frank On Bailouts, Welfare (12/14/08)

Shaun Donovan Tapped to Head HUD (12/13/08)

Erie Harbor Final Environmental Impact Statement and Environmental Assessment (12/10/08, posted 12/16/08)

An Evaluation of the City of Rochester's Lead Law: 2006-2008 (12/10/08, posted 12/16/08)

Bank of America to Cut 35,000 Jobs Over 3 Years (12/12/08)

Memo to the President: Rebuild Financial Institutions and Confidence (12/11/08)

Fighting Foreclosures, F.D.I.C. Chief Draws Fire (12/11/08)

Housing Goals We Can’t Afford (12/11/08)

National consumer groups release six priority platform (12/11/08)

Five Star Bank Owner Part of Bailout Plan (12/10/08)

Economic Stabilization Fund Report by Congressional Oversight Panel (12/10/08)

Panel has lots of questions for Treasury (12/10/08)

Plaintiffs Win Key Rulings in Two Huge Subprime Class Actions (12/8/08, posted 12/11/08)

Editorial: Mortgages and Minorities (12/9/08)

House Hearing Begins on Fannie, Freddie Downfall (12/9/08)

Comptroller Dugan Highlights Re-default Rates on Modified Loans (12/8/08)

AIG Offers First Takaful Homeowners Insurance Product for U.S. (12/2/08, posted 12/9/08)

Free Live Webinar Training - How to Set Up a Pro Bono Foreclosure Prevention Panel (12/5/08)

Washington’s New Tack: Helping Homeowners (12/5/08)

Lending in Low- and Moderate-Income Neighborhoods in California: The Performance of CRA Lending During the Subprime Meltdown (12/4/08)

A Rush Into Refinancing as Mortgage Rates Fall (12/4/08)

Federal Programs for Addressing Low-Income Housing Needs: A Policy Primer (December 2008, posted 12/4/08)

NYC Lawmakers Urged To Establish Right To Counsel In Eviction, Foreclosure Proceedings (12/3/08)

Upscale Lofts Rise Above Inner Loop (12/3/08)

Loss Mitigation Outsourcing is Officially “Hot” (12/3/08)

Industry Insiders: Foreclosure Moratoriums Won’t Work (12/3/08)

Cushion for debtors (12/2/08)

Bailout Monitor Sees Lack of a Coherent Plan (12/2/08)

Mortgage Delinquencies Set to Soar: Report (12/2/08)

City to Introduce Inspection Warrant Law (12/1/08)

Bailing Away (11/30/08)

Meltdown: The Housing Crisis and its Impact on New York State’s Local Governments (11/2008, posted 12/2/08)

All Fall Down (11/26/08)

U.S. Unveils New Programs to Ease Credit (11/25/08)

Federal Reserve announces it will initiate a program to purchase the direct obligations of housing-related government-sponsored enterprises and mortgage-backed securities backed by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Ginnie Mae (11/25/08)

Saving Citi May Create More Fear (11/25/08)

Another Crisis, Another Guarantee (11/25/08)

Mr. Obama’s Economic Advisers (11/25/08)

Joint statement by Treasury, Federal Reserve, and the FDIC on Citigroup (11/24/08)

RECESSION COULD CAUSE LARGE INCREASES IN POVERTY
AND PUSH MILLIONS INTO DEEP POVERTY (11/24/08)

Return of the Predators (11/24/08)

Subprime "Wolves" Now Make Comeback As FHA Lenders (11/24/08)

The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 Applicability to
HUD Public Housing, Section 8 Tenant-Based Voucher and Section 8
Project-Based Voucher Programs (11/24/08)

New York Warns Insurers about Some Homeowners' Cancellations (11/20/08, posted 11/25/08)

FHA-Backed Loans- The New Subprime (11/19/08, posted 11/25/08)

The Government Goes After Loan Officers (posted 11/25/08)

Unable to Sell Homes, Elderly Forgo Move to Assisted Living (11/22/08)

Lenders' right to foreclose is challenged (11/21/08)

Get Sick, Get Out: The Medical Causes of Home Foreclosures (posted 11/21/08)

HUD expands mortgage modification program (11/19/08)

Comptroller Dugan Says CRA not Responsible for Subprime Lending Abuses (11/19/08)

Are You an Idiot to Keep Paying Your Mortgage? (11/19/08)

Insurance Companies May Not Cancel Homeowner Policies Mid-Term When Non-Occupancy is the Only Consideration (11/19/08)

Hope for Homeowners Foreclosure Program Falls Flat (11/17/08)

Slowly, mortgage help comes (11/16/08, posted 11/20/08)

Newest Veterans Hit Hard by Economic Crisis (11/18/08)

Fighting the Financial Crisis, One Challenge at a Time (11/18/08)

Lender Owned Largely Vacant Properties Disproportionately Impact Communities of Color (11/17/08)

Rule To Simplify and Improve the Process of Obtaining Mortgages and Reduce Consumer Settlement Costs; Final Rule (11/17/08)

Most subprime lenders weren't subject to federal lending law (11/16/08)

Defense Department Moves To Protect Servicembers Renting From Landlords In Foreclosure (11/15/08)

Most big loan firms have closed or been sold (11/14/08)

Rochester-area agencies are still sorting out federal mortgage relief (11/14/08)

Area sees foreclosure rate drop 15 percent (11/14/08)

Bailout powers too murky (11/14/08)

FDIC Details Plan To Alter Mortgages (11/14/08) FDIC proposal.

Foreclosure Mess: Two Different Plaintiffs Claim to Own Same Mortgage (11/14/08)

Agencies Seek Comment on Proposed Interagency Appraisal and Evaluation Guidelines (11/13/08, posted 11/18/08))

Interagency Statement on Meeting the Needs of Creditworthy Borrowers (11/12/08, posted 11/18/08)

Meltdown 101: Why Did the AIG Bailout Get Bigger? (11/12/08, posted 11/18/08)

Can This House Be Saved? (11/12/08, posted 11/18/08)

Bush: Intervention not "cure-all" for crisis (11/13/08)

Foreclosure rates up 25 percent year-over-year (11/13/08) RealtyTrac press release Link to data by county for NYS

U.S. Shifts Focus in Credit Bailout to the Consumer (11/13/08)

Advocates for the "Vulnerable" Urge Paterson Not to Cut (11/13/08)

Foreclosure Prevention Lite (11/12/08)

White House Scales Back a Mortgage Relief Plan (11/11/08)

Editorial: It’s About the Mortgages (11/10/08)

A Town Drowns in Debt as Home Values Plunge (11/10/08)

Community Reinvestment Act may gain new prominence (11/9/08)

Check Cashers, Redeemed (11/7/08)

Social Currency (11/7/08)

Firms Suggest TARP Purchases of REO Needed (11/7/08)

Md., Lenders Make Deal To Assist Homeowners (11/7/08)

Dodd Retains Position, Vows to Focus on Housing Needs (11/7/08)

Good Neighbors (11/7/08) Furman Center press release. Download report.

Servicers Stretched on Capacity, Advances, Say Analysts (11/6/08)

Newly Released Federal Lending Data Show Precipitous Drop in the Number of Home Purchase Loans Originated: A 14% Drop in New York City and 25% Drop Nationally. (10/27/08, posted 11/7/08) Download Report.

Just 3 ‘superbanks’ now dominate industry; Sudden consolidation raises questions about regulation, consumer impact (11/6/08)

A Towering Economic To-Do List for Obama (11/6/08)

In Modeling Risk, the Human Factor Was Left Out (11/5/08)

$300B FHA Rescue Funds Available to Homeowners - With a Hitch (11/3/08, posted 11/6/08)

Causes and Effects of the Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy (10/6/08, posted 11/6/08)

Statewide Affordable Housing Needs Study (posted 11/4/08)

Island of Lost Homes (11/2/08)

City's plan to crack down on deadbeat landlords is necessary step (11/02/08)

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