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Category: News Clips

Bo’s News Clips: Foreclosure Settlement

News Clips•by •Posted January 9, 2013

Ten major banks are settling with the Federal Reserve to repay bilked borrowers $5.2 billion in direct assistance. The settlement…

Tags: Housing news

Bo’s news clips: More affordable housing for Austin’s Mueller community

News Clips•by John Henneberger•Posted December 25, 2012

The rigging of an international lending rate may have cost Fannie and Freddie Mac $3 billion in borrowing costs. While…

Tags: Housing news

Bo’s news clips: Austin looks for new ways to pay for low-income housing

News Clips•by John Henneberger•Posted December 19, 2012

With all the chips on the table, including social and housing programs, all eyes focus on the continuing bargaining as…

Tags: Housing news

Bo’s news clips: S TX housing shortage caused by the area’s oil and gas boom

News Clips•by John Henneberger•Posted December 11, 2012

As the nation prepares to cut budgets in light of the “fiscal cliff,” federal housing programs for poor households receive…

Tags: Housing news

Bo’s news clips: “tiny people, building their tiny houses.”

News Clips•by John Henneberger•Posted December 4, 2012

As the economy slowly improves, persons pressed into crowded households are relocating to new units, but some stay in extended…

Tags: Housing news

Bo’s housing clips: Improvements in national housing economy

News Clips•by John Henneberger•Posted December 3, 2012

A weak but slowly recovering housing industry become the rally point for the US economy as home equity improves to…

Tags: Housing news

Bo’s housing clips: Media focus remains on housing finance

News Clips•by John Henneberger•Posted November 20, 2012

Ever-so-slowly moving to reconcile screwing thousands of borrowers, big banks have completed about $22 billion in customer relief through September.…

Tags: Housing news

Bo’s housing clips: “The ones that do have cars are talking about sleeping in their cars.”

News Clips•by John Henneberger•Posted November 13, 2012

The plight of mortgage holders appears to have improved somewhat as delinquency rates decline. The priorities of those who overspend…

Tags: Housing news

Bo’s housing clips: Austin police get tough on homeless; Arlington votes to waive taxes for expensive apartments

News Clips•by John Henneberger•Posted November 6, 2012

With high rollers coming to town to take in the F-1 hoopla, Austin police respond to downtown merchants who are…

Tags: Housing news

Bo’s housing news clips: Banks sued, offer refunds

News Clips•by John Henneberger•Posted October 30, 2012

  Tuesday Report, October 30, 2012 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service In an attempt to pare…

Tags: Housing news

Bo’s housing news clips: Stunning fall in family net worth

News Clips•by John Henneberger•Posted June 19, 2012

The Census Bureau shakes out sad numbers from the Great Recession and finds that the housing bust accounts for most…

Tags: Housing news

Bo’s housing news clips: Low mortgage rates does not mean more own homes

News Clips•by John Henneberger•Posted June 12, 2012

Some banks are not only too big to fail but they’re too big for cities to serve code violations on…

Tags: Housing news

Bo’s housing news clips: causes and social repercussions of housing segregation

News Clips•by John Henneberger•Posted June 6, 2012

A cluster of reports and articles on NIMBY movements offer details on the causes and social repercussions of the continuing…

Tags: Housing news

Bo McCarver’s housing news clips for May

News Clips•by John Henneberger•Posted May 29, 2012

DOJ receives rare praise in financial crisis cases By Aruna Viswanatha        Reuters       May 25, 2012 One part of the Justice…

Tags: Housing news

Bo’s housing news clips: Study finds zoning segregates lower-income students in lower-scoring schools.

News Clips•by John Henneberger•Posted April 24, 2012

A news analysis of Texas’ allocation of federal housing funds shows the process fosters continued segregation. Although the HUD programs…

Tags: Housing news

Bo’s housing news clips: National home foreclosures and Galveston housing woes are top stories in recent weeks

News Clips•by John Henneberger•Posted April 17, 2012

Tuesday Report, April 17, 2012 Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service Wrangling between the Galveston Housing Authority…

Tags: Housing news

Bo’s housing news clips: Cost of living in Austin is ‘Out of Reach’ for most renters

News Clips•by John Henneberger•Posted March 27, 2012

Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service by Bo McCarver A few economists are now saying that the…

Tags: Housing news

Falkenberg: Learning a lot from the Rankin debacle – Houston Chronicle

News Clips•by John Henneberger•Posted March 25, 2012

Houston Chronicle columnist Lisa Falkenberg wrote her column today on former Harris County Housing Authority executive director Guy Rankin… When…

Tags: Harris County Housing Authority

Bo’s housing clips: Battered by crisis, poor still find paths to home ownership

News Clips•by John Henneberger•Posted March 20, 2012

Compiled by Bo McCarver. Special to the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service As default notices and foreclosures continue, the…

Tags: Housing news

Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 3-13-2012

News Clips•by John Henneberger•Posted March 13, 2012

The Obama Administration promises zero-tolerance for infractions of mortgage rules negotiated in a settlement with big banks last month. Mortgages…

Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 3-6-2012

News Clips•by John Henneberger•Posted March 10, 2012

Another federal program to help beleaguered homeowners has fizzled: after two years, less than 3 percent of a $7.6 billion…

Tags: Housing news

Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 2-28-2012

News Clips•by John Henneberger•Posted February 28, 2012

Market analysts, eager to see silver linings after years of dark news, perceive a recovery in the housing industry as…

Tags: Housing news

HUD boss Shaun Donovan jumps into President Obama mortgage melee – POLITICO.com

National issues, News Clips•by John Henneberger•Posted February 22, 2012

A story in Politico on the deal with the banks and HUD Secretary Donovan’s role is worth a read. I…

Tags: HUD, Shaun Donovan, United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 2-21-2012

News Clips•by John Henneberger•Posted February 21, 2012

A white paper released by the Fed that offered ways to revive the housing industry has drawn the ire of…

Tags: Housing news

Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 2-14-2012

News Clips•by John Henneberger•Posted February 17, 2012

Although big banks are forfeiting $26 billion to settle with the federal government over fraud charges, the main change will…

Tags: Housing news

Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 2-7-2012

News Clips•by John Henneberger•Posted February 14, 2012

Present negotiations with big banks over reconciliation of sleazy mortgages would turn much of the enforcement over to states. Thus…

Tags: Housing news

Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 2-14-2012

News Clips•by John Henneberger•Posted February 14, 2012

Although big banks are forfeiting $26 billion to settle with the federal government over fraud charges, the main change will…

Tags: Housing news

Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 1-31-2012

News Clips•by John Henneberger•Posted February 1, 2012

Reporters snooping into Freddie Mac’s business dealings discover that the quasi-governmental organization makes money by screwing homeowners it’s supposed to…

Tags: Housing news

Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 1-24-2012

News Clips•by John Henneberger•Posted January 24, 2012

A settlement between big banks and the government is expected this week. Homeowners screwed by robo-signing and other sleazy scams…

Tags: Housing news

Bo McCarver’s weekly housing news compilation, 1-17-2012

News Clips•by John Henneberger•Posted January 18, 2012

Foreclosure rates dropped by a third last year — but not because of better financial times for homeowners.  Fearing  federal …

Tags: Housing news

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