January 24, 2017
Tuesday’s Regulatory & Legislative Roundup
Mayor Richard Tran of Milpitas, CA promised voters in a recent election that he would ensure the city possessed more affordable housing for elders and low income communities. However, since taking office, Tran faces the limiting practicality of his plan … Continue reading
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January 23, 2017
Monday’s Adjudication Roundup
J.P. Morgan Chase settled a case against them for allegedly charging African Americans and Hispanics higher mortgage rates. This 53 million dollar settlement comes from the company’s practices just three years after the U.S. housing market crash. A Texas developer is … Continue reading
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January 20, 2017
Friday’s Government Reports Roundup
A paper, titled How Low Can House Prices Go? Estimating a Lower Bound, discusses how in risk management, the credit risk and required capital associated with mortgage assets is often estimated through stress testing where the house price path is an … Continue reading
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January 19, 2017
Thursday’s Advocacy & Think Tank Roundup
Although federal guidelines allow foreclosed homes to be sold with occupants, in a recently published article in Housing Policy Debate, the author reports that the guidelines are largely irrelevant in practice. In fact, data obtained from HUD through a Freedom … Continue reading
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January 18, 2017
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
This article titled, Foreclosure Sales and Recourse, documents the imbalance of foreclosure sales with respect to recourse laws applied to primary mortgages in the U.S. using geographic state borders as exogenous variation combined with individual transaction data located close to the border. … Continue reading
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January 17, 2017
Tuesday’s Regulatory & Legislative Roundup
Yesterday, HUD released its third set of revisions for implementing the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program. Since its creation, nearly 60,000 public housing units have completed conversion to Section 8 assistance under RAD, leveraging over $3.8 billion for construction and … Continue reading
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January 16, 2017
Monday’s Adjudication Roundup
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has received a settlement offer from real estate developer Lobsang Dargey in a $136 million EB-5 fraud case playing out in Washington federal court, signaling a possible resolution to the high-profile case. Morgan Stanley, … Continue reading
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