protecting tenants at foreclosure
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News Round-Up: Funding Housing, Ending Homelessness
Sunday morning, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry hosted a wide-ranging discussion on the aspects of America’s housing crisis that don’t get the attention they deserve: namely, housing discrimination, the impact of foreclosure on renters and the shortage of housing affordable to the lowest income Americans. In the discussion’s first segment, panelists James Perry, former NLIHC board member and Continue reading
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Protecting Renters from Foreclosure- Permanently.
The housing market is sending decidedly mixed signals to Americans: On the one hand, increases in new home construction are suggesting to analysts that the housing slump might finally be over, which could mean positive economic impacts outside of the housing construction sector. On the other hand, banks are sending increasing numbers of homes into Continue reading
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Blameless
The foreclosure crisis has been devastating to homeowners and to communities. With the first waves of foreclosure, we saw families with subprime mortgages losing their homes. More and more, it’s long-term unemployment that is forcing homeowners into foreclosure. Less publicized in all of this has been the affect of foreclosure on renters. Landlords are defaulting Continue reading
On the Home Front 