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November 20, 2015

Promoting Opportunity with Development

Enterprise Community Partners have posted Promoting Opportunity Through Equitable Transit-Oriented Development (eTOD): Barriers to Success and Best Practices for Implementation. It opens, Development patterns directly relate to a community’s strength. Individual families, the local economy, municipal governments and the environment … Continue reading →

Friday’s Government Reports Roundup

According to an October 2015 Department of Labor report, 271,000 jobs were added to the US economy in the month of October and the unemployment rate decreased to 5% from 5.1% in September. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released … Continue reading →

November 19, 2015

Building HOME

The HOME Coalition, a coalition of affordable housing organizations, has posted Building HOME: The HOME Investment Partnerships Program’s Impact on America’s Families and Communities, its 2015 report. I don’t think HOME is a household word, at least when it is … Continue reading →

November 18, 2015

Wednesday’s Academic Roundup

Introduction to Special Issue: Government Involvement in Residential Mortgage Markets, W. Scott Frame, Real Estate Economics, Vol. 43, Issue 4, pp. 807–819, 2015 (Paid Access). How Does the Federal Reserve’s Large‐Scale Asset Purchases (LSAPs) Influence Mortgage‐Backed Securities (MBS) Yields and … Continue reading →

November 16, 2015

FHA’s Clean Bill of Health

The Federal Housing Administration released its Annual Report to Congress on the Financial Status of the FHA Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund. The MMIF covers the lion’s share of the FHA’s mortgage insurance obligations. In his forward to the report, HUD … Continue reading →

Monday’s Adjudication Roundup

Following SCOTUS’s March Omnicare decision, a pension fund is claiming that the Second Circuit failed to take into account said decision in failing to revive Bank of America mortgage suit. The plaintiff requests SCOTUS’s review. U.S. District Court judge dismisses … Continue reading →

November 13, 2015

Fannie, Freddie & The Affordable Housing Feint

          Robert J. Shapiro and Elaine C. Kamarck have posted A Strategy to Promote Affordable Housing for All Americans By Recapitalizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. While it presents as a plan to fund affordable housing, … Continue reading →