- 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 at the average appreciation rate of all homes in the area.
- Federal Reserve Bank of New York Interactive Home Price Index – Maps changes in home prices each month compared with prices one year earlier, by county, based on CoreLogic overall house price indexes.
- Joint Center for Housing Studies Harvard University: “Racialized Recovery: Post-Forclosure Pathways in Distressed Neighborhoods in Boston”
- National Association of Realtors – Realtors Confidence Index Reflects on Positive Trends in Home Sales for January
- Urban Institute’s Housing Finance Policy Brief “The U.S. Treasury’s Credit Rating Agency Exercise: First Steps Out of the Private Label Securities Desert”
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Tuesday’s Regulatory & Legislative Round-Up
- 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 of H.R. 1142 is not yet available).
- HUD waives Rental Assistance Demonstration 20% Cap on Project Basing for the San Francisco Housing Authority
Friday’s Government Reports Round-Up
- U.S. Census Bureau/U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Joint Release – New Residential Construction January 2015
- Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Report, Credit Supply and the Housing Boom – provides a novel perspective on the possible origins of the Great Recession.
- Freddie Mac – Fourth Quarter 2014 Financial Results
- Freddie Mac – Refinance Report Concludes that Borrowers who Refinanced in 2014 will Save Approximately 5 Billion in Interest Payments
Thursday’s Advocacy & Think Tank Round-up
- Center for New York City Neighborhoods – Testimony Before the NYC Community Investment Advisory Board, finds affordable housing at risk on several fronts
- Fannie Mae: “Housing off to a Slow Start”
- Fannie Mae: Mortgage Lender Sentiment Survey: How Lenders Plan to Grow Their Mortgage Business in 2015
- Making Home Affordable.gov – Payment Reduction Calculator
- Shriver Center Paper, When Discretion Means Denial: A National Perspective on Criminal Records Barriers to Federally Subsidized Housing
Tuesday’s Regulatory & Legislative Round-up
- House of Representatives Introduced Bill H.R. 855 to Permanently Extend the New Markets Tax Credit which was designed to spur new or increased investments into operating businesses and real estate projects located in low-income communities. The NMTC Program attracts investment capital to low-income communities by permitting individual and corporate investors to receive a tax credit against their Federal income tax return in exchange for making equity investments in specialized financial institutions called Community Development Entities (CDEs).
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Banking Regulators Seek Public Comment – The Agencies are asking the public to comment on regulations in the Banking Operations, Capital, and the Community Reinvestment Act categories to identify outdated or otherwise unnecessary regulatory requirements imposed on insured depository institutions and their regulated holding companies.
Thursday’s Advocacy & Think Tank Round-up
- Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco – Community Investments: California’s Solution to Veteran Homelessness May Lie in Supportive Housing
- National Association of Realtors Supports Federal Housing Authority’s Plan to Reduce Mortgage Insurance Premiums
Tuesday’s Regulatory & Legislative Round-Up
- HUD AWARDS $1.8 BILLION TO IMPROVE, PRESERVE NATION’S PUBLIC HOUSING Says Housing Authorities Will Use Funding to Maintain Housing for Families, Seniors
- Julián Castro: Secretary of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Positive About the FHA in Written Testimony before the House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services, Wednesday, February 11, 2015
