Mortgage crisis continues By Jerry Goldberg on May 22, 2014 A new report documents how millions of people across the U.S. continue to suffer the effects of the housing crisis that began around 2005. Published in early May by the Haas Institute … Read More
By GRETCHEN MORGENSON MARCH 14, 2014 Three nonprofit groups offering homeowner counseling sued Gov. Jerry Brown of California on Friday, demanding the state replace $369 million that had been earmarked to help troubled borrowers but was used instead to pay … Read More
By Catherine Curan March 12, 2014 | 2:06pm Wells Fargo, the nation’s biggest mortgage servicer, appears to have set up detailed internal procedures to fabricate foreclosure papers on demand, according to allegations in papers filed Tuesday in a New York … Read More
The California Homeowner Bill of Rights became law on January 1, 2013 to ensure fair lending and borrowing practices for California homeowners. The laws are designed to guarantee basic fairness and transparency for homeowners in the foreclosure process. Key provisions … Read More
If foreclosure victims get justice, trace it back to a bad decision to stonewall Elizabeth Warren last week BY DAVID DAYEN I have spent the better part of four years trying, with little success, to raise awareness aboutforeclosure fraud, the … Read More
Churches see surge in foreclosures Carolyn Said Sunday, March 25, 2012 Standing in front of windows overlooking the San Francisco Bay, an exuberant choir clapped and danced as it sang “He Is Lord” last Sunday at Without Walls International Christian … Read More
Carolyn Said Sunday, March 18, 2012 Michael Boyter walked out of San Francisco’s federal courthouse Friday encouraged that a judge had left the door open for him to continue a legal battle against the foreclosure of his Bethel Island home. … Read More
Is it important who forecloses? Carolyn Said Sunday, March 18, 2012 Does slipshod paperwork provide legal grounds to overturn a foreclosure? In Massachusetts, courts have said “yes” in two landmark cases upheld last year by the state’s highest tribunal, the … Read More