March 12, 2015
Reiss on Being Financially Overextended
US News & World Report quoted me in 5 Signs You’re Financially Overextended. It reads in part, Are you managing your debt? Or is it managing you? If you’re stuck in a money quicksand trap, you may not even realize at first … Continue reading
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March 11, 2015
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
Countercyclical Regulation and Its Challenges, by Patricia A. McCoy, Boston College Law School Legal Research Paper No. 351. Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Developments and Neighborhood Property Conditions, Kelly D. Edmiston, February 20, 2015. First Principles for Regulating the Sharing Economy, … Continue reading
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March 9, 2015
Monday’s Adjudication Roundup
Shareholders of Deutsche Bank petitioned for cert to the U.S. Supreme Court to clarify the standard for a claim for pleading a fraudulent claim under Section 11 of the Securities Act of 1933 following the Second Circuit tossing their suit … Continue reading
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March 6, 2015
Friday’s Government Reports Round-up
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
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March 5, 2015
Thursday’s Advocacy & Think Tank Round-up
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
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March 4, 2015
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
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
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March 3, 2015
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 … Continue reading
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