April 20, 2015
Monday’s Adjudication Roundup
Former Freddie Mac executives, who were accused of lying about Freddie’s exposure to subprime mortgages before the financial crisis, settled with the SEC. Citibank shareholders slam the Bank’s motion to dismiss a case over mortgage-backed securities worth more than $17 … Continue reading
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April 14, 2015
Reiss at TechSalon on Tenant Rights
I will be the lead discussant at a Technology Salon Brooklyn event on Thursday morning: How Are ICTs and Social Media Supporting Tenant Rights? The invitation reads, Gentrification is top of mind of many Brooklynites, as they are pushed out of … Continue reading
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April 6, 2015
Housing and Transportation Affordability Index
The Center for Neighborhood Technology has a Housing and Transportation Affordability Index which provides a more comprehensive way of thinking about the true affordability of place. It presents housing and transportation data as maps, charts and statistics for 917 metropolitan … Continue reading
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April 2, 2015
Housing Affordability for Moderate-Income Households
The Center for Housing Policy’s most recent issue of Housing Landscape gives its Annual Look at The Housing Affordability Challenges of America’s Working Households. The Center finds that Overall, 15.2 percent of all U.S. households (17.6 million households) were severely housing cost … Continue reading
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March 30, 2015
Affordable Housing for which Low-Income Households?
The National Low Income Housing Coalition’s latest issue of Housing Spotlight provides its annual examination of “the availability of rental housing affordable to” extremely low income “and low income renter households . . ..” (1) It finds that the gap … Continue reading
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March 27, 2015
Friday’s Government Reports Roundup
CFPB releases report of KPMG audit of its operations and budget. In the report, CFPB agrees with KPMG’s findings about control deficiencies and is aiming to fix such deficiencies. FHFA releases report on progress of Fannie/Freddie Conservatorships in advancing access … Continue reading
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March 25, 2015
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
Regional Redistribution Through the U.S. Mortgage Market, by Erik Hurst, Benjamin J. Keys, Amit Seru and Joseph Vavra, NBER Working Paper No. w21007. Will the Bubble Burst Be Revisited, by P.D. Aditya, March 8, 2015. Data & Civil Rights: Housing … Continue reading
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