December 14, 2015
Monday’s Adjudication Roundup
EB-5 fraud case will get a jury trial contrary to the request from the SEC. The court rejected the SEC’s attempt to block it claiming it came too late. Wells Fargo settles with a group of homeowners for $25.7 million … Continue reading
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December 11, 2015
Friday’s Government Reports
The U.S. Census Bureau has released the latest batch of data from it’s American Community Survey on Small Area Income and Poverty statistics.
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December 10, 2015
Thursday’s Advocacy & Think Round-Up
The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies has released America’s Rental Housing: Expanding Options for Diverse and Growing Demand in which it finds that the last ten years have seem an unprecedented growth in the demand for rental housing.
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December 9, 2015
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
On the Value of Shared Bike Systems in Urban Environments: Evidence from the Real Estate Markets, Konstantinos Pelechrinis, Marios Kokkodis & Theodoros Lappas. Planning an Affordable City, David Schleicher & Roderick M. Hills, Jr., Iowa Law Review, Vol. 101, pp. … Continue reading
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December 8, 2015
Tuesday’s Regulatory & Legislative Round-Up
President Obama recently signed the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act into law. The legislation contains numerous provisions related to housing including, “pay for success” housing demonstration in which private contractors will enter into contracts to upgrade the efficacy of federal … Continue reading
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December 7, 2015
Monday’s Adjudication Roundup
Ninth Circuit upholds Section 8, which provides low income housing, recipients’ right to one-year notice that their benefits will be cut after failing to receive any notice in 2007. Franklin American Mortgage Co. settled with the U.S. Department of Justice … Continue reading
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December 4, 2015
Friday’s Government Reports Roundup
S. Department of Housing and Urban Development released its 2015 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress, estimating the latest national one-night of homelessness. The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) released its report, “A Rare Occurrence: The Geography and Race … Continue reading
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