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Tag: Home foreclosures

Fear of Foreclosure: How homeowners of color are struggling with the financial fallout of COVID-19 in Houston

Local issues, State issues•by •Posted March 16, 2021

People of color have historically faced systemic obstacles in access to homeownership, yet so many have still persevered to secure…

Tags: covid-19, Home foreclosures, homeownership

Poll: Most think government should help homeowners in trouble

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 30, 2011

A new CBS News/ New York Times poll shows: Most Americans think home ownership is an important part of the…

Tags: Foreclosure crisis, Home foreclosure, Home foreclosures, Housing budget, Housing news, Real estate economics

Doggett on Foreclosures-“Well, the market didn’t really work, did it?”

National issues•by •Posted June 27, 2011

Quote of the Day- “Well, the market didn’t really work, did it? And why should we be so wedded to…

Tags: Home foreclosures, Robert Doggett

NSP1-A Deadline Looms

National issues, State issues•by •Posted August 30, 2010

Last week HUD announced the details of their enforcement of the 18-month deadline for obligation of the first round of…

Tags: Foreclosure crisis, Home foreclosures, HUD, NSP, TDHCA, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

Rich are defaulting on mortgages at a higher rate

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 9, 2010

While lots of criticism from some TV commentators has been heaped on lower-income homeowners who lost their homes to foreclosure,…

Tags: Foreclosure crisis, Home foreclosures

10 percent of Texans are behind in their home loan payments

Local issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted November 24, 2009

Each one of the yellow squares represents a judicial mandated sale of property in San Antonio and Bexar County. Scary,…

Tags: Foreclosure crisis, Home foreclosures

I want to believe the President’s financial consumer protection plan will work, but it won’t

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 20, 2009

President Obama adopted a fighting stance against the financial services industry today in his weekly radio address. He promised that…

Tags: Community Reinvestment Act, Foreclosure crisis, Home foreclosures

The struggle begins to successfully design a TX Neighborhood Stabilization Program

Local issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted March 5, 2009

I have previously expressed concerns about how the new Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) can be successfully implemented. I attended a…

Tags: Home foreclosures, Housing segregation, Neighborhood Stabilization Program, TDHCA, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

Rough outlines of Texas $178m Neighborhood Stabilization Program emerge

Local issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted November 11, 2008

In an attempt to deal with the foreclosure crisis Congress has allocated substantial funding to cities, counties and states to…

Tags: Home foreclosures, TDHCA, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

New report profiles loan delinquencies and foreclosures in Texas cities

Local issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted October 29, 2008

A collaboration between LISC and the Urban Institute has produced a data set with “foreclosure needs scores” within Community Development…

Tags: Foreclosure crisis, Home foreclosures

We endorse Texas Attorney General Abbott’s call for mortgage deferment legislation to help struggling homeowners

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted October 24, 2008

The Texas Low Income Housing Information Service (TxLIHIS) applauds and endorses Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s proposal today for a…

Tags: Foreclosure crisis, Home foreclosures

My recommendations for dealing with the low-income homeownership problems in Texas

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted October 9, 2008

I was invited to testify today before the Texas Senate Intergovernmental Relations Committee on the status of state programs to…

Tags: Home foreclosures, Housing policy, Texas Bootstrap housing, Texas Housing Trust Fund

The foreclosure resistant low income mortgage loan

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted September 21, 2008

The $700 billion bailout of Wall Street brought about by the subprime/ predatory mortgage debacle points out that there needs…

Tags: Foreclosure crisis, Home foreclosures, Subprime lending

Plight of renters unaddressed in foreclosure crisis

National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted August 23, 2008

While the country focuses on the plight of homeowners facing foreclosure, the plight of renters forced to move due to…

Tags: Home foreclosures

Questions, answers, concerns about the new $4 billion foreclosed homes program in Texas

Local issues, National issues, State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 28, 2008

One of the subprograms of greatest controversy within the major housing legislation passed by Congress on Saturday (HR 3221) is…

Tags: CDBG, Foreclosure crisis, Home foreclosure, Home foreclosures, Housing policy, Housing resources

Nonprofit FHA downpayment assistance scheme nets 19% Texas defaults

National issues•by John Henneberger•Posted July 5, 2008

I’m sorry if this makes me sound like an affordable housing hertic but this bothers me. NPR reports there are…

Tags: FHA, Foreclosure crisis, Home foreclosures

One perspective on the Texas foreclosure crisis

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted June 15, 2008

View Dr. James Gaines presentation [it takes a couple minutes to begin playing] before the Texas House financial institutions committee…

Tags: Foreclosure crisis, Home foreclosures, Subprime lending
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