Foreclosure: The Ugly Stepchild of Affordable Housing
NY Daily News: Advocates say funding needed to prevent foreclosures in New York It’s no surprise to anybody who spends time on affordable housing that single and small multi-family homeownership...
View ArticleWhy Foreclosure Buybacks Are (not) Wrong
Why Foreclosure Buybacks Are (not) Wrong I happened upon this posting yesterday and I while I try to maintain a position of anti-snarky-ness, I found it very difficult to find any common ground with...
View ArticleWhy I Think Schneiderman is Right
NYS Attorney General Eric Schneiderman So, the press keeps coming back to this story about the proposed “robo-signing” settlement being constructed by a consortium of state Attorneys General....
View ArticleBig Foreclosures vs. Little Foreclosures
Foreclosures Leave Apartment Buildings in Need of Repair There was a really nice article in today’s Gotham Gazette about larger, non-owner-occupied buildings that are headed into default and...
View Article401(no)(k): Why Retirements Should Not Be Used to Pay Mortgages
The Century Reader: Foreclosure Home for $1.00? For those of you who are not avid readers of the Detroit News, there was a really well done opinion piece on a new proposal put forward by U.S. Sen....
View ArticleDear Mom, Here’s What Crashed the Economy (Part I)
Re-posted from my guest blog on Rooflines. My Mom Rocks! My mom rocks. She’s the most big-hearted, intellectually curious, bright-eyed and good-looking mom in the world. Now, she and Pop came for a...
View ArticleDear Mom, Here’s What Crashed the Economy (Part II)
Mom at the 9/11 Memorial Re-posted from my guest blog on Rooflines. In case you missed the first post in this series, you can link to it here. You should read it. My mom says so. My goal is to...
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