Monthly Archives: March 2015
Friday’s Government Reports Round-up
March 6, 2015
by Serenna McCloud
Budgetary Impact of Major Federal Programs that Guarantee Mortgages—Congressional Budget Office’s January 2015 Baseline California Assembly Democrat’s Proposal to Create More Affordable Housing in California Dr. Michael Stegman, Counselor to the Treasury Secretary for Housing Finance Policy, Remarks before the … Continue reading
Read MoreHousing and Vacancies in NYC
March 5, 2015
by David Reiss
New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) has released its initial findings of its 2014 Housing and Vacancy Survey. There are some interesting findings about the housing stock, particularly for those of us who follow the NYC … Continue reading
Read MoreThursday’s Advocacy & Think Tank Round-up
by Serenna McCloud
ACLU: “Here We Go Again: Communities of Color, The Foreclosure Crisis, and Loan Servicing Failures” Federal Housing Finance Agency – HPI Calculator – projects what a given house purchased at a point in time would be worth today if it appreciated … Continue reading
Read MoreWells Fargo Smackdown
March 4, 2015
by David Reiss
Circuit Judge Elliott of Missouri Circuit Court issued a Judgment in Holm v. Wells Fargo et al. (No. 08CN-CV00944 Jan. 26, 2015) that awarded nearly three million dollars in punitive damages. This is just one of a number of searing … Continue reading
Read MoreWednesday’s Academic Roundup
by Shea Cunningham
American Dream in Flux: The Endangered Right to Lease a Home, by Andrea J. Boyack, Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Journal, Vol. 49, No. 2, 2014. A Guide to New York State Commercial Landlord-Tenant Law and Procedure, by Gerald … Continue reading
Read MoreSalary Needed for a House in 27 Cities
March 3, 2015
by David Reiss
HSH.com has posted a study to answer the question — How much salary do you need to earn in order to afford the principal, interest, taxes and insurance payments on a median-priced home in your metro area? The study opens, … Continue reading
Read MoreTuesday’s Regulatory & Legislative Round-Up
by Serenna McCloud
H.R. 1142 was introduced in Congress to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent and expand the temporary minimum credit rate for the low-income housing tax credit program, an identical bill was introduced into last year’s Congress (text … Continue reading
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